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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... SENEX UVENIS : What is it that you admire in the types of old books ? Don't you love them more for their quaintness than for their beauty ? I have seen originals or accredited facsimiles of the best books of Gutenberg , Jenson , Aldus ...
... SENEX UVENIS : What is it that you admire in the types of old books ? Don't you love them more for their quaintness than for their beauty ? I have seen originals or accredited facsimiles of the best books of Gutenberg , Jenson , Aldus ...
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... Senex : Is not the difficulty of reading old black - letter due to its unfamiliar abbreviations and to mannerisms in type - setting now out of fashion ? Would not modern types be obscure if similarly treated ? Juvenis : They would ; but ...
... Senex : Is not the difficulty of reading old black - letter due to its unfamiliar abbreviations and to mannerisms in type - setting now out of fashion ? Would not modern types be obscure if similarly treated ? Juvenis : They would ; but ...
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... Senex : True again ; but the mannerisms that obscure the Bodoni type at ten feet are more distressing in his small types , usually read at the distance of fifteen inches . The over - sharp hair - line , the dazzling serif , and the ...
... Senex : True again ; but the mannerisms that obscure the Bodoni type at ten feet are more distressing in his small types , usually read at the distance of fifteen inches . The over - sharp hair - line , the dazzling serif , and the ...
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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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