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Stanley Morison

British type designer

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Born 1889
Died 1967

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  • Cover of: Type designs of the past and present

    First published in 1926 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A brief survey of printing: history and practice

    First published in 1923 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A tally of types: with additions by several hands ; and with a new introduction by Mike Parker

    Cover of edition tallytypes00mori First published in 1953 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Four centuries of fine printing: one hundred and ninety-two facsimiles of pages from books printed at presses established between 1465 and 1924.

    First published in 1960 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The art of the printer: 250 title & text pages selected from books composed in the roman letter printed from 1500 to 1900

    First published in 1925 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: American copybooks: an outline of their history from Colonial to modern times

    First published in 1951 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Aspects of authority and freedom in relation to Graeco-Latin script, inscription, and type, sixth century B.C. to twentieth century A.D.

    First published in 1957 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Black-letter text

    First published in 1942 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: "Captain Epilogue", Becky Wells, and the Keep-the-Liners

    First published in 1931 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Caractères de l'écriture dans la typographie: étude historique

    First published in 1927 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Fell types.

    First published in 1930 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Four centuries of fine printing: two hundred and seventy-two examples of the work of presses established between 1465 and 1924.

    First published in 1949 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: German incunabula in the British Museum: one hundred and fifty-two facsimile plates of fine book-pages from the presses of Germany, German Switzerland and Austria-Hungary, printed in the fifteenth century in Gothic letter and derived founts.

    First published in 1975 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: John Fell: the University Press and the 'Fell' types : the punches and matrices designed for printing in the Greek, Latin, English, and Oriental languages bequeathed in 1686 to the University of Oxford by John Fell

    First published in 1967 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: John Fell, the University Press, and the 'Fell' types

    First published in 1967 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Latin script since the Renaissance.

    First published in 1938 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Les plus belles pages de la typographie moderne: en Angleterre, aux États-Unis, en France, en Italie, en Suisse, en Allemagne, en Tchéco-Slovaquie, en Hollande, et en Suède depuis le début du vingtième siècle.

    First published in 1925 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Letter forms: typographic and scriptorial : two essays on their classification, history, and bibliography

    First published in 1968 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Modern fine printing: an exhibit of printing issued in England, the United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia, Holland and Sweden during the twentieth century and with few exceptions since the outbreak of the war

    First published in 1925 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: On decoration in printing.

    First published in 1923 — 2 editions
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Born 1889
Died 1967

Subjects

Printing, Type and type-founding, History, Specimens, Title pages, Penmanship, Biography, Alphabets, Imprints, Lettering, Oxford University Press, English newspapers, Italian Paleography, Liturgies, Printers, Scholarly publishing, Writing, Bibliography, Book design, Caractères d'imprimerie, Church of England, Facsimiles, Graphic design (Typography), Historiography, Paleography

Places

Great Britain, England, Italy, Cambridge, London, Oxford, Boston, Boston (Mass.), Cambridge (England), Europe, France, German-speaking Europe, Germany, London (England), Massachusetts, Oxford (England), United States, Venice, Venice (Italy)

People

John Fell (1625-1686), Edward Topham (1751-1820), Luca Pacioli (ca. 1445-1517), Stanley Morison (1889-1967), Thomas More Sir, Saint (1478-1535), Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941), Lucas Pacioli, Aldo Manuzio (1449 or 50-1515), Anton Janson, Antonio Blado (1490-1567), Aulus Gellius, B. L. Ullman (1882-1965), Charles Thomas Jacobi (1853-1933,), Charles Whittingham (1795-1876), Claude Garamond (-1561), Damasus I Pope (305-384), Dawks family, Edward Topham, Francesco Colonna (d. 1527), Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, Giovanni Battista Verini, Ichabod Dawks, Ichabod Dawks (1661-1730), Ichabod, 1661-1731 Dawks, John Bell (1745-1831)

Time

20th century, 17th century, 19th century, 18th century, 16th century

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Alternative names

  • Morison, Stanley
  • Morison Stanley
  • MORISON,Stanley
  • Stanley 1889-1967 Morison
  • Stanley MORISON
  • Stanley Arthur Morison

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August 10, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris Add brief bio and full name from Wikidata
August 10, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import