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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... Caslon the elder loved music , and it is pos- sible that the composer Handel sometimes played his new pieces at the concerts held in Caslon's organ room , since the two men had mutual friends in the musical world of London . There have ...
... Caslon the elder loved music , and it is pos- sible that the composer Handel sometimes played his new pieces at the concerts held in Caslon's organ room , since the two men had mutual friends in the musical world of London . There have ...
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... Caslon and one “ ma- chine - justified " in Monotype Caslon . Both were submitted to Shaw without saying which was which . The suspected Mono- type " justification " was preferred . Maxwell triumphed . Emery Walker , consulted by letter ...
... Caslon and one “ ma- chine - justified " in Monotype Caslon . Both were submitted to Shaw without saying which was which . The suspected Mono- type " justification " was preferred . Maxwell triumphed . Emery Walker , consulted by letter ...
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... CASLON , the great eighteenth - century English old style , has suf- fered more from " improvement and refinement " by succeeding genera- tions of type founders than most celebrated types . A development based on Dutch models rather ...
... CASLON , the great eighteenth - century English old style , has suf- fered more from " improvement and refinement " by succeeding genera- tions of type founders than most celebrated types . A development based on Dutch models rather ...
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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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