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Livres anciens et modernes

Morison, Stanley

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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Année
1972
Auteur
Morison, Stanley
Éditeurs
Oxford Clarendon Press
Thème
Palaeography Design Manuscript Arts & Photography Classical, Greek & Roman Linguistics Reference Inscriptions
Description
Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
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.