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Stanley Morison

Male : Writer on Typography and Printing. Book designer. On the staff of The Times, typographical adviser to CUP and the Monotype Corporation. Designed the Times Roman Font & Gollancz jackets in 1930's
Nationality : English Date of Birth : 1889 Date of Death : 1967 Age : 78
1919-1930
Some Fruits of Theosophy
(1919 Harding & More, London) - 64pp wraps
The Craft of Printing : Notes on the History of Type Forms
(1921 Pelican Press)
A Brief Survey of Printing History & Practice
(1923 Fleuron, London) - with Holbrook Jackson
On Type Faces : Examples of the Use of Type
(1923 Medici Society) - 750
Modern Fine Printing : An Exhibit of Printing issued .. during the 20thC
(1925 Benn) - 650 of 1015
The Art of the Printer
(1925 Benn)
The Calligraphic Models of Ludovicio Arrighi Surnamed Vicentino
(1926 Frederick Warde, Paris) - 300
Offered in 1998 for £845
Type Designs of the Past and Present
(1926 The Fleuron, London)
A Review of Recent Typography in England, the United States, France & Germany
(1927 The Fleuron, London)
(Intro) German Incunabula in the British Museum (1928 London) - 398
John Bell 1745-1831 : Bookseller, Printer, Publisher
(1930 CUP for Author) - 300
Printing in the 20thC : A Survey
(1930 Times Publ Co)

1931-1950
Ichabod Dawks and His News-Letter
(1931 CUP) - 500
The English Newspaper : Some Account of the Physical development of Journals
Printed in London between 1622 & the Present Day
(1932 CUP)
Fra Luca de Pacioli
(1933 Grolier Club, NY) - 390. Emery Walker
Offered in 1995 for £665
First Principles of Typography
(1936 CUP) (1936 Macmillan NY)
The Art of Printing
(1938 H Milford, London) (1945 Diament Typographic Service, NY - 650)
Latin Script since the Renaissance
(nd. 1938 CUP) - 50
Richard Austin : Engraver to the Printing Trade
(1937 for Friends of the CUP) - 100
Black-Letter Text
(1942 CUP) - 100
Recollections of Daniel Berkeley Updike
(1943 Merrymount Press, Boston)
- 210. with Rudolph Ruzicka
The Typographic Arts Past & Present and Future
(1944 James Thin, Edinburgh)
The Typographic Arts & the Art of Printing : Two Lectures
(1949 Sylvan Press, London) - Joan Hassall
Four Centuries of Fine Printing
(1949 Benn) (1949 Farrar Straus, NY. 2nd Ed)
The History of The Times
(1950-2 The Times) - 4 vols in 5

1951-1970
American Copybooks : An Outline of Their History from Colonial Times to Modern
(1951 Fell, Phila)
A Tally of Types cut for Machine Composition
(1953 PP in Cambridge) - 450
The Origins of the Newspaper
(1954 The Times, London)
Typographic Design in relation to Photographic Composition
(1959 Book Club of California, SF) - 400
Talbot Baines Reed : Author, Bibliographer & Typefounder
(1960 PP in Cambridge) - 500
Calligraphy 1535-1885
(1962 La Bibliofila, Milan)
The Typographic Book 1450-1935 : A Study of Fine Typography through Five Centuries
(1963 Benn, London & Chicago UP) - with Kenneth Day
The Likeness of Thomas More : An Iconographical Survey of Three Centuries
(1963 Burns & Oates, London)
John Fell : The University Press and the Fell Types
(1967 Clarendon Press) - 1000. with Harry Carter
Offered for £200 in 1998
Letter Forms, Typographical & Scriptorial
(1968 The Typophiles, NY)
A Tally of Types : With Additions by Several Hands
(1973 Cambridge) - edited by Brooke Crutchley

READING
John Carter : A Handlist of the Writings
(1950 PP in Cambridge) - 500
Jake Zeitlin : Stanley Morison 1889-1967
(1968 Castle Press, London)
N Barker : Stanley Morison
(1972 Macmillan)

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