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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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. • TYPOGRAPHY ERIC GILL . O NE OF the most alluring enthusiasms that can occupy the mind of the letterer is that of inventing a really logical and consistent alphabet ... ERIC GILL Typography.
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. • TYPOGRAPHY ERIC GILL . O NE OF the most alluring enthusiasms that can occupy the mind of the letterer is that of inventing a really logical and consistent alphabet ... ERIC GILL Typography.
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... GILL SANS , designed by Eric Gill in 1928 , was patterned after letter- ing done for the Douglas Cleverdon bookshop in Bristol . First offered by English Monotype as a titling font ( caps , figures and points only ) , the lowercase was ...
... GILL SANS , designed by Eric Gill in 1928 , was patterned after letter- ing done for the Douglas Cleverdon bookshop in Bristol . First offered by English Monotype as a titling font ( caps , figures and points only ) , the lowercase was ...
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... Eric Gill , the eminent English sculptor and maker of letters with pen , chisel and graver . Mr. Gill's account of his type ( cut in England ) : " from drawings made by me . Those drawings were not made with special reference to ...
... Eric Gill , the eminent English sculptor and maker of letters with pen , chisel and graver . Mr. Gill's account of his type ( cut in England ) : " from drawings made by me . Those drawings were not made with special reference to ...
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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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