Posts Tagged ‘Merrymount Press’

Printer as Historian: The Story of D.B. Updike

posted on 16 February 2010, under Typographically Speaking

“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 [...]

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D.B. Updike Set Standard of Great Craftsmanship

posted on 2 February 2010, under The Composing Room

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 [...]

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