Morison, Stanley.
Oxford University Press, 1999 (reprint of 1972 edition)
cloth, dj., 172 pp., illus.
Book Number 23596
The central argument of Stanley Morison's Lyell Lectures (edited herein by Nicholas Barker) is that the development of script--innscriptional, calligraphic, or typographical--has been the result of changes in the religious or political environment, of friction between church and state, and of the schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Morison comments on over 180 illustrated specimens, ranging from an early example of alphabetic forms on a 6th-century gravestone to newspaper typefaces of the 1950's.