Blackletter: Type and National Identity

A catalogue of the exhibition

The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, School of Art, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Still in shrink-wrap. 1999. 80pp

Curated and designed by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw

Copyright 1999 by the American Printing History Association

This catalogue is a record of the exhibition. The essays by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw in this volume investigate the rise and fall of blackletter type, examining its uses and cultural significance at various points throughout history, including Reformation, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and the post-Berlin Wall period.