Meggs' History of Graphic Design

\"\"Copyright\"\"
 \"\"Contents\"\"
 \"\"How to Use this E-book\"\"
 \"\"Preface\"\"
 \"\"Preface to the First Edition\"\"
 \"\"Acknowledgments\"\"
 \"\"Part I The Prologue to Graphic Design: The visual message from prehistory through the medieval era\"\"
 \"\"1: The Invention of Writing\"\"
 \"\"Prehistoric visual communications\"\"
 \"\"The cradle of civilization\"\"
 \"\"The earliest writing\"\"
 \"\"Mesopotamian visual identification\"\"
 \"\"Egyptian hieroglyphs\"\"
 \"\"Papyrus and writing\"\"
 \"\"The first illustrated manuscripts\"\"
 \"\"Egyptian visual identification\"\"
 \"\"2: Alphabets\"\"
 \"\"Cretan pictographs\"\"
 \"\"The North Semitic alphabet\"\" \"\"The Aramaic alphabet and its descendants\"\"\"\"The Greek alphabet\"\"
 \"\"The Latin alphabet\"\"
 \"\"The Korean alphabet\"\"
 \"\"3: The Asian Contribution\"\"
 \"\"Chinese calligraphy\"\"
 \"\"The invention of paper\"\"
 \"\"The discovery of printing\"\"
 \"\"The invention of movable type\"\"
 \"\"4: Illuminated Manuscripts\"\"
 \"\"The classical style\"\"
 \"\"Celtic book design\"\"
 \"\"The Caroline graphic renewal\"\"
 \"\"Spanish pictorial expressionism\"\"
 \"\"Romanesque and Gothic manuscripts\"\"
 \"\"Judaic manuscripts\"\"
 \"\"Islamic manuscripts\"\"
 \"\"Late medieval illuminated manuscripts\"\" \"\"Part II A Graphic Renaissance: The origins of European typography and design for printing\"\"\"\"5: Printing Comes to Europe\"\"
 \"\"Early European block printing\"\"
 \"\"Movable typography in Europe\"\"
 \"\"Copperplate engraving\"\"
 \"\"6: The German Illustrated Book\"\"
 \"\"Origins of the illustrated typographic book\"\"
 \"\"Nuremberg becomes a printing center\"\"
 \"\"The further development of the German illustrated book\"\"
 \"\"Typography spreads from Germany\"\"
 \"\"7: Renaissance Graphic Design\"\"
 \"\"Graphic design of the Italian Renaissance\"\"
 \"\"Italian writing masters\"\"
 \"\"Innovation passes to France\"\" \"\"Basel and Lyons become design centers\"\"\"\"The seventeenth century\"\"
 \"\"8: An Epoch of Typographic Genius\"\"
 \"\"Graphic design of the rococo era\"\"
 \"\"Caslon and Baskerville\"\"
 \"\"The origins of information graphics\"\"
 \"\"The imperial designs of Louis René Luce\"\"
 \"\"The modern style\"\"
 \"\"The illuminated printing of William Blake\"\"
 \"\"The epoch closes\"\"
 \"\"Part III The Bridge to the Twentieth Century: The Industrial Revolution: The impact of industrial technology upon visual communications\"\"
 \"\"9: Graphic Design and the Industrial Revolution\"\"
 \"\"Innovations in typography\"\" \"\"The wood-type poster\"\"\"\"A revolution in printing\"\"
 \"\"The mechanization of typography\"\"
 \"\"Photography, the new communications tool\"\"
 \"\"The inventors of photography\"\"
 \"\"The application of photography to printing\"\"
 \"\"Defining the medium\"\"
 \"\"Photography as reportage\"\"
 \"\"Popular graphics of the Victorian era\"\"
 \"\"The development of lithography\"\"
 \"\"The Boston school of chromolithography\"\"
 \"\"The design language of chromolithography\"\"
 \"\"The battle on the signboards\"\"
 \"\"Images for children\"\"
 \"\"The rise of American editorial and advertising design\"\"
 \"\"Victorian typography\"\"