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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... Morris Admiration for Morris led to the setting up of several private or amateur presses , which did excellent work in his spirit : notably the Doves Press , conducted at first by Mr. Cobden - Sanderson , an ex - barrister , who had ...
... Morris Admiration for Morris led to the setting up of several private or amateur presses , which did excellent work in his spirit : notably the Doves Press , conducted at first by Mr. Cobden - Sanderson , an ex - barrister , who had ...
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... Morris who attempted to stop the downward slide of printing . He was the leader in the revival of what is known as " modern fine printing . " It has been said that Morris was inspired by a lecture of Emery Walker's on the Golden Age of ...
... Morris who attempted to stop the downward slide of printing . He was the leader in the revival of what is known as " modern fine printing . " It has been said that Morris was inspired by a lecture of Emery Walker's on the Golden Age of ...
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... Morris did . But there was a marked difference be- tween them , for Morris knew better . Although to him beauty meant decoration or ornament , yet in the first edition of The Roots of the Mountains he actually produced an undecorated ...
... Morris did . But there was a marked difference be- tween them , for Morris knew better . Although to him beauty meant decoration or ornament , yet in the first edition of The Roots of the Mountains he actually produced an undecorated ...
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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 |
| 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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