The story of a foundational aspect of publishing, from Gutenbergs press to todays digital type.

Its common knowledge that the name Gutenberg and the words moveable type go together. Whats far less known is that Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni arent just font options in a word processing dropdown menu, but the names of some of the real punchcutters and type designers who raised the essential work of typography to the level of art.

One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, the latest entry in the Grolier Clubs prestigious Grolier Hundred series, is the story of art and technology working in harmony with each other, all the way from Johannes Gutenbergs ingenious development of a system for reproducing texts through the introduction of newer technologies like hot-metal line casting, phototype, and digital type. Featuring scholarly yet accessible context for the works discussed and their typographical significance, and illustrated with more than two hundred images, Jerry Kellys book is the most comprehensive exploration yet of this essential facet of bookmaking and publishing.