Cast it #5
Lazy Dog Press, ISBN 9788898030446,
Pb, 48 pgs, 17 x 24cm
Acqn. 34169
In Stock
£12.00
Pb, 48 pgs, 17 x 24cm
Acqn. 34169
In Stock
£12.00
"Cast it" is a publication that uses CAST fonts and deals with the history and culture of type. Issue 5 presents The Processes of Type-making, an excerpt from the first chapter of Plain Printing Types, a book written by the American scholar-printer Theodore Low De Vinne and included in his four-volume treatise The Practice of Typography (1900-1904).
The excerpt focuses on De Vinne's summaries of electrotypes, stereotypes, printing presses and especially his analyses of typeface wear. As pointed out by Paul Shaw in his preface: "De Vinne's account of typography, typesetting and printing is that of a large-scale commercial printer" […] "His language is lucid and easily understood by a modern reader in contrast to that of Moxon, Fournier, or even Mackellar."