Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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... first published for the Society of Calligraphers and included in Mss . by WAD ; Evelyn Harter's Printers As Men of the World ; and Lawrence C. Wroth's " First Work With American Types , " from Typographic Heritage .
... first published for the Society of Calligraphers and included in Mss . by WAD ; Evelyn Harter's Printers As Men of the World ; and Lawrence C. Wroth's " First Work With American Types , " from Typographic Heritage .
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7th of April last : printed with types of American Manufacture . The first Work with Amer . Types : tho ' Types were made at N. Haven years ago . . " The fact that Ezra Stiles was one of the earliest patrons of Abel Buell's venture in ...
7th of April last : printed with types of American Manufacture . The first Work with Amer . Types : tho ' Types were made at N. Haven years ago . . " The fact that Ezra Stiles was one of the earliest patrons of Abel Buell's venture in ...
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portion to the whole mass than can be found in the books of contemporary American printers . " In 1735 appeared over Frank- lin's imprint James Logan's Cato's Moral Distichs Englished in Couplets . Nine years later Franklin sponsored ...
portion to the whole mass than can be found in the books of contemporary American printers . " In 1735 appeared over Frank- lin's imprint James Logan's Cato's Moral Distichs Englished in Couplets . Nine years later Franklin sponsored ...
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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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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | World Publishing Company, 1951 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 12 Abr 2007 |
| N.º de páginas | 417 páginas |
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