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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... Cockerel - all of them have their worries and their toil , but their work for me is done with love . This is a question you might ask yourselves : can a beautiful thing be made cynically ? The dice is loaded against the unwanted child ...
... Cockerel - all of them have their worries and their toil , but their work for me is done with love . This is a question you might ask yourselves : can a beautiful thing be made cynically ? The dice is loaded against the unwanted child ...
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... Cockerels , but inscribed on series of stone tablets . There were several " copies " of the epic of Gilgamesh in the library at Nineveh . To return to the Golden Cockerel , he also loves the master- pieces of English and French ...
... Cockerels , but inscribed on series of stone tablets . There were several " copies " of the epic of Gilgamesh in the library at Nineveh . To return to the Golden Cockerel , he also loves the master- pieces of English and French ...
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... Cockerel up to 1933. For reasons I need not go into , this method does not now pay . The survival of the Golden Cockerel , since I and my friends took it over in the midst of the great depression , has been due in large measure to the ...
... Cockerel up to 1933. For reasons I need not go into , this method does not now pay . The survival of the Golden Cockerel , since I and my friends took it over in the midst of the great depression , has been due in large measure to 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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