Daniel Berkeley Updike

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Daniel Berkeley Updike Born in Providence, 1860, he died in Boston in 1941. Typographer, printer, historian and author, best known for his classic book Printing Types: their History, Forms and Use" (1922, Harvard University Press; second edition at Harvard University Press in 1951) which is based on a lecture series he gave at Harvard University from 1910 to 1916. The second edition is from 1937. In 1893 (some say 1894), he founded the Merrymount Press in Providence, Rhode Island. He designed the Montallegro typeface. In 1896, Daniel Berkeley Updike and Bertram G. Goodhue co-designed a bold text typeface. Britannica entry. Abebooks link. Volume 1 and Volume 2 of his book have been scanned in. Patent office link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Daniel Berkeley Updike MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ Type scene in Massachusetts ⦿ Type scene in Rhode Island ⦿

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