Bücher von Stanley Morison

Drei klassische Texte von drei großen Buchkünstlern und Schriftgestaltern.Schrift und Buch stehen in einer großen reichen Tradition die ihresgleichen sucht. Mit den Texten von drei einflußreichen Schrift- und Buchkünstlern soll der Blick auf die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts gerichtet werden, in der die Buchkunst noch einmal zur wirkungsvollen Entfaltung gekommen ist.Stanley Morison und Eric Gill modernisieren die englische Typografie und Buchkunst und kommen zu neuen Lösungen als Schriftkünstler und Typografen, die neben dem Buch ihre Entwürfe für den Akzidenz- und Zeitungsdruck bedachten. Neben der englischen Typografie war es die deutsche Entwicklung, die in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu Bedeutung kam. Paul Renner soll stellvertretend für andere (Tschichold, Vordemberge-Gildewart, Willi Baumeister) mit einem Text zum Buch zu Wort kommen.

Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period.

Dawks is the name of a family of booksellers and printers who practised their craft in London during the seventeenth century and later. This account of the Dawkses enlarges at several points our knowledge of their respective careers, and, in the case of Ichabod, demonstrates the character of his contribution to the progress of English journalism.

John Bell (1745-1831) was an English publisher who was described by the author as a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'. His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783.

This book examines the history of the various liturgical books used in public worship in England, from their origins in apostolic times to the later stages of their development in the middle of the twentieth century and draws attention to the rich history of change underlying church liturgies.

This book aims to stimulate interest in the bibliographical history of newspaper development, despite this form being 'essentially ephemeral', which 'yet has a place, though humble, beside the cocdex and the printed book - the most permanent of records of human thought and experience'.