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HISTORY OF GREEK TYPOGRAPHY:
From the invention of printing to the Digital Age |
Professor of classical languages.
Plasencia. Spain. January 2023.
DESCRIPTION
The book explores every major development in the design of Greek type and includes some lesser-known designers whose type designs made significant contributions to the craft. The material is divided into sections by historical period for easy reference.
The text of the book provides an excellent historical background to the study of Greek printing types.
“History of Greek Typography" stands a step above other books on the history of Greek printing types because of the number of its reproductions -some of them extremely rare- and its straightforward and clear exposition.
This work, profusely illustrated, not only addresses the Hellenic scholar, but also the modern writer, typographer, historian, graphic designer, printer, publisher and font developer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction.
1. From handwriting
to type.
11. Johann
Froben
of Basel and Erasmus of Rotterdam.
The New Testament in Greek.
12. The
beginnings of Greek typography in France:
Guilles de
Gourmont, Badius Ascensius and Simon de
Colines.
13. The
French Royal Greek types: Neobar, Claude
Garamont and the Estienne family.
14. The
followers of Garamont: Haultin, Granjon, Le
Bé and Jannon.
15. Christophe
Plantin and the “Biblia Regia”.
16. The
Elzevirs: the pocket book.
17. Greek
types in England. XVI-XVII centuries:
Savile, Walton and Fell.
18. The
Golden Age of Greek typography in
Netherlands.
The
first
steps towards a Greek type without ligatures.
19. The Transitional period: Caslon, Baskerville, Martin, Fournier and Ibarra.
20. The
Foulis brothers and Alexander
Wilson.
The end of the ligatured Greek.
21. The
Modern types: Bodoni and Didot.
22.
The English
contribution: Porson, Watts, Hibbert and
Selwyn.
23.
Greek types in Germany:
Georg Joachim Goschen.
24.
Greek types from the
Second Industrial Revolution to the
beginning of the Digital Age.
25. Greek
types in the classical collections: Teubner,
Oxford, Budé and Loeb.
26. Greek
digital typefaces. Revivals of classical
types.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Juan-José Marcos is a font developer too. He has created the ALPHABETUM Unicode font for ancient scripts http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/alphaeng.html and other digital typefaces for Latin and Greek palaeography http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/palegreek.html
gmail.comJuan-José Marcos
Plasencia (Cáceres) Spain.
This page last updated on January 2023