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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... Greeks . Our sixth letter , F , is missing in classical Greek , but it is found in earlier writings . It comes from a Phoe- nician representation of a hook or nail ( ? ) " vau . " The Hebrew form resembles the latter object . The nail ...
... Greeks . Our sixth letter , F , is missing in classical Greek , but it is found in earlier writings . It comes from a Phoe- nician representation of a hook or nail ( ? ) " vau . " The Hebrew form resembles the latter object . The nail ...
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... Greek civilisation , if we fail to pay tribute to an innovation which entitles Greek literature to rank as a cardinal contribution to the self - education of the human species . To a far greater extent than the Romans , the Greeks ...
... Greek civilisation , if we fail to pay tribute to an innovation which entitles Greek literature to rank as a cardinal contribution to the self - education of the human species . To a far greater extent than the Romans , the Greeks ...
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... Greek scholars . In order to have reference books available for his proof - readers and editors , he first printed a Greek dictionary and a Greek grammar and himself prepared a Greek - Latin dictionary . He gave Venice a university when ...
... Greek scholars . In order to have reference books available for his proof - readers and editors , he first printed a Greek dictionary and a Greek grammar and himself prepared a Greek - Latin dictionary . He gave Venice a university when ...
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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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