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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... Kelmscott books together . Morris himself was delighted with the book . He declared it to be " the best - looking book issued since the seventeenth cen- tury , " and added : " I am so pleased with my book , typography , binding , and ...
... Kelmscott books together . Morris himself was delighted with the book . He declared it to be " the best - looking book issued since the seventeenth cen- tury , " and added : " I am so pleased with my book , typography , binding , and ...
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... Kelmscott books are overdressed . They ask you to look at them rather than to read them . You can't get away from their overwhelming typography , and , even if you could , you might still be cheated of your author by their high - minded ...
... Kelmscott books are overdressed . They ask you to look at them rather than to read them . You can't get away from their overwhelming typography , and , even if you could , you might still be cheated of your author by their high - minded ...
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... Kelmscott Press , 180 Roots of the Mountains , 236 , 238 , 388 typography of , 233–38 , 275 , 278 see also Kelmscott Press Mountjoye type face , 403 Moxon , Edward , 83 , 157 Moxon , Joseph , 57 Murray , John , 157 , 387-88 Musurus ...
... Kelmscott Press , 180 Roots of the Mountains , 236 , 238 , 388 typography of , 233–38 , 275 , 278 see also Kelmscott Press Mountjoye type face , 403 Moxon , Edward , 83 , 157 Moxon , Joseph , 57 Murray , John , 157 , 387-88 Musurus ...
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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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