Table of Contents

Volume I: 1. The art of printing; 2. Towards an ideal roman type; 3. The Chancery types of Italy and France; 4. On script types; 5. Towards an ideal italic; 6. The italic types of Antonio Blado and Ludovico Arrighi; 7. Decorated types; 8. Leipzig as a centre of type-founding; 9. Venice and the arabesque ornament; 10. The development of handwriting: an outline; 11. 'Black-letter' text; 12. Early humanistic script and the first roman type; 13. Notes on the development of Latin script; Volume II: 14. Memorandum on a proposal to revise the typography of The Times; 15. Supplement to the memorandum; 16. The origins of the newspaper; 17. The learned press as an institution; 18. Marcello Cervini, Pope Marcellus II; bibliography's patron saint; 19. Recollections and perspectives of D. B. Updike.

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These two volumes bring together the majority of Stanley Morison's most lasting essays.