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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... Benjamin after a paternal uncle , was at first intended for the Church , but Josiah could not afford to give him the education which this most learned of the professions demanded , and at the age of ten , after receiving as thorough an ...
... Benjamin after a paternal uncle , was at first intended for the Church , but Josiah could not afford to give him the education which this most learned of the professions demanded , and at the age of ten , after receiving as thorough an ...
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... Benjamin . Ben- jamin's indentures as apprentice to James had five years to run , and in order to forestall any objection on the part of the authori- ties that an apprentice was not competent to manage the paper , the indentures were ...
... Benjamin . Ben- jamin's indentures as apprentice to James had five years to run , and in order to forestall any objection on the part of the authori- ties that an apprentice was not competent to manage the paper , the indentures were ...
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... Benjamin Franklin in Queen Street , where Advertisements are taken in . " Benjamin Franklin's name thus first appeared in an imprint . It remained on the tailboard of the Courant until the paper's discontinuance in 1726 , long after ...
... Benjamin Franklin in Queen Street , where Advertisements are taken in . " Benjamin Franklin's name thus first appeared in an imprint . It remained on the tailboard of the Courant until the paper's discontinuance in 1726 , long after ...
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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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