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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... ABEL BUELL , of Killingworth in Connecticut , [ ew- eller and Lapidary , begs leave to ae- quaint the Public , and ... Abel Buell's First Font From a proof of May 1769. Courtesy of the Yale University Library Buell was not without ...
... ABEL BUELL , of Killingworth in Connecticut , [ ew- eller and Lapidary , begs leave to ae- quaint the Public , and ... Abel Buell's First Font From a proof of May 1769. Courtesy of the Yale University Library Buell was not without ...
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... ABEL BUELL of Killingworth Humbly fheweth ; That your Memorialist having Experienc'd the Great Goodness of this ... Abel Brill Abel Buell's Second Font , October 1769 Courtesy of the Connecticut State Archives at Germantown in the ...
... ABEL BUELL of Killingworth Humbly fheweth ; That your Memorialist having Experienc'd the Great Goodness of this ... Abel Brill Abel Buell's Second Font , October 1769 Courtesy of the Connecticut State Archives at Germantown in the ...
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... Abel Buell , a Connecticut Yankee , in 1769. * Buell was his own designer , punch cutter , and caster , since in his day , as for many years after , the making of type was entirely a hand operation . Not the least ex- acting part of the ...
... Abel Buell , a Connecticut Yankee , in 1769. * Buell was his own designer , punch cutter , and caster , since in his day , as for many years after , the making of type was entirely a hand operation . Not the least ex- acting part of the ...
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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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