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Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Item date(s): 1998

Philip B. Meggs
Alston W. Purvis - (preface by)

Pages: 575pp
Size: xi, 282mm
Language: English

Sub-type: Typography
Theme(s): Book design

Place publication: New Jersey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 978-0-471-69902-6

Additional notes:
Fourth Edition 1998, Originally published in ?

Includes chapters on The Invention of writing, Alphabets, The Asian contribution, Illuminated Manuscripts, Printing in Europe, German illustrated books, Typography, Renaissance books, Private Press, Marinetti, Carroll, Mallarme, Fortunato Depero, Grosz, Ernst, Zdanevitch, Malevich, Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Zwart, etc.

Fernand Leger - La fin du monde, p251.

Man Ray - Facile, p267.

Ref: GB/31629