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 Story of the Alphabet ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT Do you know your A B C's ? Each Letter Character Has a History and a Reason for Its Present Form . Have you Ever Questioned the Origin and Significance of the Alphabet ?
The Story of the Alphabet ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT Do you know your A B C's ? Each Letter Character Has a History and a Reason for Its Present Form . Have you Ever Questioned the Origin and Significance of the Alphabet ?
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Naturally the Phoenician alphabet makers selected a familiar object in the name of which this particular vowel sound was emphasized . Since food is of primal importance , it is not surprising to find that he chose the ox— “ Alef ...
Naturally the Phoenician alphabet makers selected a familiar object in the name of which this particular vowel sound was emphasized . Since food is of primal importance , it is not surprising to find that he chose the ox— “ Alef ...
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But this enthusiasm has no practical value for the typographer ; we must take the alphabets we have got , and we must ... First of all , then , we have the ROMAN ALPHABET of CAPITAL letters ( Upper - case ) , and second the alphabet ...
But this enthusiasm has no practical value for the typographer ; we must take the alphabets we have got , and we must ... First of all , then , we have the ROMAN ALPHABET of CAPITAL letters ( Upper - case ) , and second the alphabet ...
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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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