Originally delivered as a series of lectures in 1956-57, these papers argue that the script was the result of changes in the religious or political environment and was due to the friction between the Church and the State and between east and West Christendom.

Politics and Script: Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from the Sixth Century BC

Morison, Stanley

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

To understand the language and development of type is to know its history. Letter Forms is a collection of essays by and about Stanley Morison, adviser to Monotype, and the greatest type historian of our time. ... For the true student of typography and the fine art of distinguishing "between things that differ," the historical insights of Letter Forms will be a source of inspiration and a glimpse into the mind of one of the most gifted typography scholars of this century.

Letter forms, typographic and scriptorial: Two essays on their classification, history, and bibliography

History

Europe

Nattali & Maurice

Fra Luca de Pacioli was a late 15th-century Franciscan friar who published the first serious treatise on the true shapes and proportions of classical Roman letters. This edition of Pacioli's alphabet has been painstakingly reproduced from a rare, limited edition of 397 copies prepared by Stanley Morison, distinguished typographer and scholar. It includes 23 alphabet letters, complete alphabets by Tagliente and Palatino, more. Bibliography.

Pacioli's Classic Roman Alphabet (Dover Books on Lettering, Graphic Arts and Printing)

Arts & Photography

Dover Pubns

First Principles of Typography

Reference

Cambridge University Press

The text of The English Newspaper is substantially that given as a series of six lectures in the Sandars Readership in Bibliography in February 1932, a post that Stanley Morison held at Cambridge University from 1931-2. He based most of his research on original sources from, among others, the British Museum, the Bodleian and University Libraries. His aim was 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'.

The English Newspaper, 1622–1932: An Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Written by the respected typographer Stanley Arthur Morison (1889-1967), English Prayer Books 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. Using the books themselves as the first source of critical enquiry, Morison draws attention to the rich history of change underlying church liturgies and throws light on a subject too often neglected in the study of Christian sacred texts.

English Prayer Books: An Introduction to the Literature of Christian Public Worship

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The Tally of Types was first circulated in a privately printed edition in 1953, achieving a fame and influence wholly disproportionate to the comparatively small number of copies in existence. In 1973 Cambridge University Press published a version edited and expanded by Brooke Crutchley and others, making this classic of typographical history and practice available to a wider readership; it is this edition we have reprinted here. 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. It is an impressive performance: a fine example of what is now recognised as Morison's characteristic blend of erudition and insight. What started as no more than an attempt to record the facts developed, under his hand, into one of the major statements of typographical practice of its time.

A Tally of Types

Graphic Design

During his long career Stanley Morison held appointments as typographical adviser to Cambridge University Press, to the Monotype Corporation, and to The Times, where he was responsible both for its radical new design in 1932 and for the standard history of the paper. These two volumes bring together the majority of his most lasting essays. Many of them, pioneering in their day, are now classics in their field. The collection, first published in 1980, spans a period of forty years. It includes essays on letter-forms in manuscript and in print, beginning with those published in The Flueron in the 1920s, on typefaces in sixteenth-century Italy, on the development of Latin script, on the history of learned presses and on the typography of newspapers.

Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print. 2 Volume Set

Business & Money

Cambridge Univ Pr

The Likeness of Thomas More: An Iconographical Survey of Three Centuries

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Fordham University Press

The Likeness of Thomas More An Iconographical Survey of Three Centuries

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