Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesPaul A. Bennett World Publishing Company, 1951 - 417 páginas A collection of forty articles, poems, and essays by practitioners of the art of bookmaking. A unique feature of this book is that its articles are set in twenty-two different typefaces; thus it serves as a student's specimen book, affording an interesting comparison of the "color" and body of various composition faces while at the same time supplementing the comments of the typographic experts. More than one hundred illustrations of printers' marks, decorative bookplates, specimen pages, etc., complement the text--From publisher description. |
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... Baskerville at length raised our typography to a level with Continental work . For one innovation P. S. Fournier is mainly responsible , the introduction of outline and other decorative cap- itals which were so successfully used at ...
... Baskerville at length raised our typography to a level with Continental work . For one innovation P. S. Fournier is mainly responsible , the introduction of outline and other decorative cap- itals which were so successfully used at ...
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... BASKERVILLE , the fine transitional face named for the eight- eenth - century English printer , is available in several contemporary versions . The Linotype cutting used here , most faithful to the orig- inal roman , was produced from a ...
... BASKERVILLE , the fine transitional face named for the eight- eenth - century English printer , is available in several contemporary versions . The Linotype cutting used here , most faithful to the orig- inal roman , was produced from a ...
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... Baskerville , John , 60 , 64 , 92 , 98 , 186 letter - spacing of , 287-88 Baskerville type face , 155–56 , 244 , 404 specimen , 411 bastard title , 160 , 168 Bauhaus School , typography of , 306-7 , 319 Bay , Jacob , 69–77 Bayer ...
... Baskerville , John , 60 , 64 , 92 , 98 , 186 letter - spacing of , 287-88 Baskerville type face , 155–56 , 244 , 404 specimen , 411 bastard title , 160 , 168 Bauhaus School , typography of , 306-7 , 319 Bay , Jacob , 69–77 Bayer ...
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OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
RUTH S GRANNISS Colophons | 31 |
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