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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... Nonesuch has been . This is my excuse for the personal ( worse , the first - personal ) character of these ensuing notes . Nonesuch was started by three of us in the close quarters of a base ment room ( two of the three became husband ...
... Nonesuch has been . This is my excuse for the personal ( worse , the first - personal ) character of these ensuing notes . Nonesuch was started by three of us in the close quarters of a base ment room ( two of the three became husband ...
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... Nonesuch Palace the elements which Stephen Gooden made into our first " mark . ” In adapting the device , we took also the name ; and I silenced an early objection that it was too boast ful by pointing out that Nonesuch means ...
... Nonesuch Palace the elements which Stephen Gooden made into our first " mark . ” In adapting the device , we took also the name ; and I silenced an early objection that it was too boast ful by pointing out that Nonesuch means ...
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... Nonesuch was to see to the paper and other common errors of mercenary printing ; but D.G. and V.M. aspired to tackle the question of amendments as well . From our fourth book onwards that policy has governed all our major publications ...
... Nonesuch was to see to the paper and other common errors of mercenary printing ; but D.G. and V.M. aspired to tackle the question of amendments as well . From our fourth book onwards that policy has governed all our major publications ...
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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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