POLITICS AND SCRIPT Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from the Sixth Century B. C. to the Twentieth Century A. D. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1972

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Year of publication

1972

Author

Morison, Stanley

Publishers

Oxford Clarendon Press

Keyword

Palaeography Design Manuscript Arts & Photography Classical, Greek & Roman Linguistics Reference Inscriptions

Cover description

Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0198181469

Description

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and institution plates. DJ is protected in plastic. Dustjacket has edgewear with minor chipping and a few tears (some repaired with adhesive tape). ; The Lyell lectures; 361 pages; The central argument of Stanley Morison's work is that the development of script (inscriptional, calligraphic or typographical) has been the result of changes in religious or political environment, of friction between church and state, and of the schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Morison begins with an example of alphabetic forms on a 6th century BC gravestone from Melos and proceeds through commentary on a notable collection of more than 180 illustrated specimens, to trace the career of the Graeco-Roman alphabet up to its use in newspaper typefaces of the 1950s. He also seeks to show that the most widely used printers' typefaces of the twentieth century owe more to their Greek than to their Roman antecedents.