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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One further quotation will show how readily Hol- brook Jackson's wisdom can be thrown out of the window ; in these pages last year Mr. Herbert Read criticised the English and American editions of his own book , The Grass Roots of Art ...
One further quotation will show how readily Hol- brook Jackson's wisdom can be thrown out of the window ; in these pages last year Mr. Herbert Read criticised the English and American editions of his own book , The Grass Roots of Art ...
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You see this creature with her kerbstone English : the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days . Well , sir , in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party .
You see this creature with her kerbstone English : the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days . Well , sir , in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party .
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BASKERVILLE , the fine transitional face named for the eight- eenth - century English printer , is available in several contemporary versions . The Linotype cutting used here , most faithful to the orig- inal roman , was produced from a ...
BASKERVILLE , the fine transitional face named for the eight- eenth - century English printer , is available in several contemporary versions . The Linotype cutting used here , most faithful to the orig- inal roman , was produced from a ...
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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 |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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