Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A Fine edition housed in a Near Fine dust-jacket that has a few edge tears and minor soiling marks.

This book is a retrospective on the history of typography, documenting the evolution of printing technology and the people who made it happen. It covers the development of movable type, the birth of the newspaper industry, and the rise of desktop publishing. In doing so, Blumenthal chronicles the history of typography from an insider's perspective, describing the personalities and techniques of some of the most influential printers and type designers of the past fifty years.; 8vo; 153 pages; Price? ? ?