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Table of Contents ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT Do you know your A B C's? Each Letter Character Has a History and a Reason for Its Present Form. Have you Ever Questioned the Origin and Significance of the Alphabet?
Table of Contents ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT Do you know your A B C's? Each Letter Character Has a History and a Reason for Its Present Form. Have you Ever Questioned the Origin and Significance of the Alphabet?
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... the first Olympiad, 776 B.C. Three or four centuries before they gave it to the Romans the ancient Greeks found use for fifteen of the Phoenician letters and then conceived enough to round out an alphabet of twenty-four characters.
... the first Olympiad, 776 B.C. Three or four centuries before they gave it to the Romans the ancient Greeks found use for fifteen of the Phoenician letters and then conceived enough to round out an alphabet of twenty-four characters.
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The great advance that can be credited to them is that they realized that a small number of soundexpressing characters, if well selected, are sufficient to express any word. Other races at this period had phonetic systems but they ...
The great advance that can be credited to them is that they realized that a small number of soundexpressing characters, if well selected, are sufficient to express any word. Other races at this period had phonetic systems but they ...
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The Greeks again were ignorant of the picture and careless or indifferent as to the exact name of the character, and thus two triangles instead of the square supporting a triangle were made and the name changed from "beth" to "beta" (ba ...
The Greeks again were ignorant of the picture and careless or indifferent as to the exact name of the character, and thus two triangles instead of the square supporting a triangle were made and the name changed from "beth" to "beta" (ba ...
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One side bar of the window was lost early. The Greeks at first used this sound for the long "e" (epsilon) but afterwards employed the character H or "eta" for the long sound. The Romans at first made no change except to call it.
One side bar of the window was lost early. The Greeks at first used this sound for the long "e" (epsilon) but afterwards employed the character H or "eta" for the long sound. The Romans at first made no change except to call it.
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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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