Core seminars: French Academy letters

Core texts: André Jammes, “Académisme et Typographie: the making of the romain du roi.” In Journal of the Printing Historical Society no 1, 1965 James Mosley, “French academicians and modern typography: designing new types in the 1690s.”

Items on handout bibliography

Andrew Boag, ‘Typographic measurement: a chronology’. In _ Typography Papers 1_, 1996

Harry Carter, Fournier on Typefounding: the text of the Manuel Typographique translated into English and edited with notes by Harry Carter. London, 1930. Reprinted: New York, 1973, Darmstadt, 1995

Pierre-Simon Fournier, Modèles de caractères de l’imprimerie. Facsimile edition, with an introduction by James Mosley. London, 1965

Fournier, Pierre-Simon, Manuel Typographique (Paris, 1764–[8]). Facsimile edition, 3 vols., Darmstadt, 1995 (vol.3 includes a facsimile reprint of Carter, Fournier on Typefounding, 1930), edited by James Mosley

Allen Hutt, Fournier, the compleat typographer. London, 1972

Imprimerie Royale, Les caractères de l’Imprimerie Nationale. Paris, Paris, 1990

André Jammes, La réforme de la typographie royale sous Louis XIV: Le Grandjean. Paris, 1961. Reprinted in a reduced format as La naissance d’un caractère: le Grandjean, Paris, 1985. Slightly abridged text published in English translation under the title ‘Académisme et Typographie: the making of the romain du roi’, in Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no 1, 1965

Robin Kinross, Modern typography: an essay in critical history. London, 1992

James Mosley, ‘French academicians and modern typography: designing new types in the 1690s’. In Typography Papers 2, 1997

James Mosley, ‘Illustrations of typefounding engraved for the Description des Arts e Métiers of the Académie Royale des Sciences, 1694 to c. 1700’. In Matrix, no 11, 1991

Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing. Herbert Davies & Harry Carter, Eds. 2nd ed, London, 1962

Fred Smeijers, Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now. London, 1992

Walter Tracy, Letters of credit: a view of type design. London, 1986

Items for discussion

F C Avis, Edward Philip Prince: type punchcutter. Glenview Press, 1967

H Daniel Caslon, Typefounding and type design. H W Caslon & Co Ltd, 1932

Denis Diderot & Jean le Rond d’Alembert (eds), “Imprimerie en caracteres: Contenant dix-neuf Planches.” In Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des artes et des métiers. André le Breton, 1751

André Jammes, La réforme de la typography royale sous Louis XIV le Grandjean: Étude accompagnée de CX cuivres originaux conservés à l’ Imprimerie Nationale. Librairie Paul Jammes, 1961

Peter Karow, Typeface statistics. URW Verlag, 1993

Donald E Knuth, “The letter S”. In The Mathematical Intelligencer vol 2 no 3, 1980

Christian Paput, La lettre: La gravure du poinçon typographique / The punchcutting. TVSO Éditions, 1998