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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... Bible in two columns of forty- two lines to the page came out in 1456 , most probably , according to McMurtrie , from the press of Fust , now in competition with Gutenberg . As early as 1478 , a Cologne master printer issued a Bible in ...
... Bible in two columns of forty- two lines to the page came out in 1456 , most probably , according to McMurtrie , from the press of Fust , now in competition with Gutenberg . As early as 1478 , a Cologne master printer issued a Bible in ...
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... Bible has been in all ages an appreciable factor in the development of typography . The successful beginnings of type founding in English America , it is believed , may be traced to the desire of Christopher Sower Jr. of Germantown ...
... Bible has been in all ages an appreciable factor in the development of typography . The successful beginnings of type founding in English America , it is believed , may be traced to the desire of Christopher Sower Jr. of Germantown ...
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... Bible - printing in England runs on very much the same lines . As soon as it was decided that English Bibles were to be placed in all churches , the printers were chosen , the price was fixed and every Parish was ordered to supply ...
... Bible - printing in England runs on very much the same lines . As soon as it was decided that English Bibles were to be placed in all churches , the printers were chosen , the price was fixed and every Parish was ordered to supply ...
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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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