Stanley Morison was for many years typographic consultant and adviser on management to The Times (London) and was also a consultant to the Lanston Monotype Corporation (the name was changed to the Monotype Corporation Ltd. in 1931) and to the Cambridge University Press. He cultivated working relationships with virtually everyone involved in the fine printing of books in Europe and North America during his lifetime and was the most influential agent in the growth of the printing aesthetic that began with William Morris. Morison was chiefly responsible for the design and adoption of many typefaces, including Times New Roman, which continues to be one of the most widely used faces. His ideas have been in Europe and North America accepted widely and many well-designed and well-printed books have been the result. Morison wrote about the histories of calligraphy, paleography, typography, printing, and journalism, but he called himself a typographer...