1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996388982503316

Autore

Polybius

Titolo

The history of Polybius, the Megalopolitan [[electronic resource] ] : containing a general account of the transactions of the world, and principally of the Roman people, during the first and second Punick wars : translated by Sir H.S. : to which is added, A character of Polybius and his writings by Mr. Dryden : the first volume

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by W. Onley, for Sam. Briscoe ... and R. Wellington ..., 1698

Edizione

[The second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ([1], xxxv, xiv, 270, 196, [2]; [1], 304 p.) : maps

Altri autori (Persone)

DrydenJohn <1631-1700.>

SheeresHenry-1710

Soggetti

History, Ancient

Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C

Greece History Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

"The history of Polybius the Megalopolitan ... vol II. III" has special t.p. and separate pagination.

Imperfect: volume III lacking in filmed copy.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809913203321

Titolo

Type matters : the rhetoricity of letter forms / / edited by Christopher Scott Wyatt and Danielle Nicole DeVoss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Anderson, South Carolina : , : Parlor Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-60235-978-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 pages)

Collana

Visual rhetoric

Disciplina

686.2/2

Soggetti

Type and type-founding

Graphic design (Typography)

Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

On type and typographic anatomy / C. S. Wyatt -- Type reveals culture: a defense of "bad" type / Garrett W. Nichols -- "Give us back our serifs": the cultural rhetoric of rage against the [new] Google logo / Philip Rice -- The development of typeface personas and the consequences of perceived identities / Heather Noel Turner -- Nostalgia for handwriting: the rhetoric of comics lettering / Aaron Kashtan -- "All your font are belong to us": gaming in the late age of print / Elizabeth J. Fleitz -- Why I hate Times New Roman, and other confessions of a creative-critical scholar / Ames Hawkins -- Why bookerly isn't (and why that's not such a terrible thing) / John Logie -- Jan Tschichold's renunciation of die neue typographie: the anatomy and ethics of a typographical reversal / David Bedsole -- Typographic nationalism and the banal uniformity of imagined communities / Jake Cowan -- Logotypes in place: a visual rhetorical history of Cigar City / Meredith A. Johnson, Peter Cannon, Roxanna Palmer, Joshua M. Rea, and Tanya Zarlengo -- Font of wisdom: the vernacular rhetoric of the Serenity Prayer / William T. FitzGerald -- Standardized typography in interactive internet environments / John R. Gallagher and Rebecca Tarsa -- Kinetic typography: reinserting embodied delivery into recorded oral texts / Christal Seahorn, Diana I. Bowen, Charles Jeffery Darwin, and Dragana Djordjevic.



Sommario/riassunto

"Type Matters bridges the scholarship of typography and design with the field of rhetoric. Contributors address the ways in which and places where typography enacts or reveals rhetorical principles"--