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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... less printable , less bindable paper ; cheaper binding materials throughout ; sewing in 32's and other skimping in workmanship . And it means clumsier , uglier , more perishable books . While other industries are seeking to make the ...
... less printable , less bindable paper ; cheaper binding materials throughout ; sewing in 32's and other skimping in workmanship . And it means clumsier , uglier , more perishable books . While other industries are seeking to make the ...
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... less convenient and less durable and less beautiful . While other industries are helping to develop popular taste and anticipating changes in it , we are waiting for our customers to get mad at us . While we see the masses getting wise ...
... less convenient and less durable and less beautiful . While other industries are helping to develop popular taste and anticipating changes in it , we are waiting for our customers to get mad at us . While we see the masses getting wise ...
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... less and less important as the crisis in international affairs that was bringing on the American Revolution grew more and more acute . But the printer in him could not wholly be suppressed . When he went to Paris in 1776 as ...
... less and less important as the crisis in international affairs that was bringing on the American Revolution grew more and more acute . But the printer in him could not wholly be suppressed . When he went to Paris in 1776 as ...
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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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