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The Noblest Roman offers a richly illustrated and definitive history of Centaur, an important American typeface. The story of the type's creation has been recounted many times in general terms, following a version of events purported by its designer, Bruce Rogers. Jerry Kelly and Misha Beletsky uncover new research that was culled from unpublished documents to present a more accurate narrative of its history.JERRY KELLY is an independent designer, calligrapher and printer. He is an authority on the work of Bruce Rogers, a contributor toBruce Rogers: A Life in Letters and the author of The First Flowering: Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press.MISHA BELETSKY is the Art Director of Abbeville Press. He is the author of Book Jackets of Ismar David: A Calligraphic Legacy and a co-author of Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode.

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Book category Books in English The arts Industrial / commercial art & design Graphic design

• Full title: Noblest Roman
• Author: Jerry Kelly
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781939125149
• ISBN: 1939125146
• ID: 09213470
• Publisher: BOYDELL PRESS
• Weight: 331 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. February 2015

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