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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... Shaw's first play , Widowers ' Houses , was produced ; 1898 when Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant , published by Grant ... Shaw are a remarkable exception to the general rule in the highly- organized printing and publishing trades ...
... Shaw's first play , Widowers ' Houses , was produced ; 1898 when Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant , published by Grant ... Shaw are a remarkable exception to the general rule in the highly- organized printing and publishing trades ...
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... Shaw's letterbox . He re - worded the passage to silence the rule - of - thumb practitioners . We have all been afflicted from time to time in prefaces and authors ' notes with the names of odd people who have also " read the proofs ...
... Shaw's letterbox . He re - worded the passage to silence the rule - of - thumb practitioners . We have all been afflicted from time to time in prefaces and authors ' notes with the names of odd people who have also " read the proofs ...
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... Shaw book , but the illustrations overload the text of this slim book ; the binding is too much and too black . Shaw's own wash drawings of the Black Girl are much more subtle in suggestion than John Far- leigh's white line . But there ...
... Shaw book , but the illustrations overload the text of this slim book ; the binding is too much and too black . Shaw's own wash drawings of the Black Girl are much more subtle in suggestion than John Far- leigh's white line . But there ...
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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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