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"From the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century men admired Roman antiquity; the Romantic movement revived the Middle Ages.... It is only since the 1914-18 war that it has become fashionable to ignore the past en bloc.
"From the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century men admired Roman antiquity; the Romantic movement revived the Middle Ages.... It is only since the 1914-18 war that it has become fashionable to ignore the past en bloc.
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They had taken probably eighteen of these from the Greeks about the fourth century B.C. and afterwards borrowed elsewhere or invented seven more. Instead of giving them names as the Greeks did, they simply called them by the sounds for ...
They had taken probably eighteen of these from the Greeks about the fourth century B.C. and afterwards borrowed elsewhere or invented seven more. Instead of giving them names as the Greeks did, they simply called them by the sounds for ...
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Later on, about the third century A.D. to distinguish the "g" sound from the "k" sound they added a little bar below the opening. Thus we get both C and G from the picture of the camel. Stevenson said that when he was a child the ...
Later on, about the third century A.D. to distinguish the "g" sound from the "k" sound they added a little bar below the opening. Thus we get both C and G from the picture of the camel. Stevenson said that when he was a child the ...
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... for the capital J until the sixteenth century. The small j came into being nearly a century later. The dot over the i was first introduced in a thirteenth century manuscript. (*) Until the 3rd Century B.C. the character c represented.
... for the capital J until the sixteenth century. The small j came into being nearly a century later. The dot over the i was first introduced in a thirteenth century manuscript. (*) Until the 3rd Century B.C. the character c represented.
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... the half century before the voyages of Columbus. Civilised mankind had to surmount many hurdles before it was possible to exploit to the fullest extent the considerable economy signalised by the introduction of alphabetic writing.
... the half century before the voyages of Columbus. Civilised mankind had to surmount many hurdles before it was possible to exploit to the fullest extent the considerable economy signalised by the introduction of alphabetic writing.
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EDWIN ELIOTT WILLOUGHBY Printers Marks | |
THEIR FORMS AND DEVELOPMENT | |
RONALD B McKERROW Typographic Debut | |
Ligatures | |
ANNE LYON HAIGHT Are Women the Natural Enemies of Books? | |
CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD Printing for Love | |
EDWIN GRABHORN The Fine Art of Printing | |
HOLBROOK JACKSON THE TYPOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM MORRIS | |
CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS American Type Designers and Their Work | |
THEODORE LOW DE VINNE The Old and the New A FRIENDLY DISPUTE | |
ADVENTURER WITH TYPE ORNAMENT | |
SOME TENDENCIES IN MODERN TYPOGRAPHY | |
CLELAND Harsh Words | |
W A DWIGGINS EXTRACTS FROM AN INVESTIGATION INTO | |
MR MCG MR A MR L | |
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OSCAR OGG A Comparison of Calligraphy Lettering | |
EARNEST ELMO CALKINS The Book Job Print | |
G B S ANDR R C 18981948 | |
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advertising alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration device early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important impression interest invention issued Italy John kind known later less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mechanical mind natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason result Roman rule seems sense space standards style Table of Contents taste things thought trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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| Título | Books and Printing; a Treasury for Typophiles |
| Autor | Various |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Editor | Good Press, 2021 |
| N.º de páginas | 420 páginas |
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