Here’s a basic collection printers interested in typography should own History, type design, typography and biography in recommended listing Individual opinions vary; printers may want to add other important works Some time ago this department listed the manuals which, since Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises, circa 1683, had influenced the compositor’s craft. There have been several inquiries [...]
“The death of Daniel Berkeley Updike removed the last and the most widely influential of the notable group of Victorian writers, learned in both the practice and the history of the printing and allied trades, who, together, contributed a body of archeological research and industrial application whose richness and quality must arouse the admiration of [...]
In the city of Providence, Rhode Island, Daniel Berkeley Updike was born upon this day in 1860. With no practical background as a printer, he was destined to become one of the great American printers, and with no formal education as such, to become an outstanding scholar of printing, responsible for the revival of interest [...]
“What bliss it were to be reading it for the first time!” The late Lawrence C. Wroth, distinguished American bibliographer and printing historian, so ended his preface to the third edition of Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use, A Study in Survivals, by Daniel Berkeley Updike, which appeared in 1962. The first edition of [...]
On this day in 1941, Daniel Berkeley Updike acceded to a request from the Typophiles to write a short introduction to the collection of wartime letters which Beatrice Warde wrote from London to her mother in New York. This compilation was published as one of the Typophile Chap Books under the title, Bombed But Unbeaten. [...]
With few type faces, Updike produced a vast amount of outstanding work. He was a noted scholar, historian, and writer as well as a printer. Updike’s Merrymount Press became famous for the quality of its work. It is now 18 years since the death—in December 1941—of Daniel Berkeley Updike, American printer. In all probability these [...]