Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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The Roman letter was the parent of all the styles notwithstanding the diversity that has appeared in Europe since the beginning of the Christian era . With a little imagination it is not difficult to note the resemblance between similar ...
The Roman letter was the parent of all the styles notwithstanding the diversity that has appeared in Europe since the beginning of the Christian era . With a little imagination it is not difficult to note the resemblance between similar ...
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Sener : Then you have seen the pointed black - letter , the round gothic , the aldine italic , the flemish black , and the early roman . Did not any of these styles please you ? Juvenis : Not one . To try to read the pointed black of ...
Sener : Then you have seen the pointed black - letter , the round gothic , the aldine italic , the flemish black , and the early roman . Did not any of these styles please you ? Juvenis : Not one . To try to read the pointed black of ...
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Their scientific books are usually in roman . Their preference for roman is a confession that roman types are better , and that the printers of the seventeenth century did wisely in their general abandonment of pointed letters .
Their scientific books are usually in roman . Their preference for roman is a confession that roman types are better , and that the printers of the seventeenth century did wisely in their general abandonment of pointed letters .
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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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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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