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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... amateur publishers than amateur print- ers working private presses with a hired man to do the heavy work . But if we choose to think of them only as customers , they were customers who knew what they wanted and brought the printer under ...
... amateur publishers than amateur print- ers working private presses with a hired man to do the heavy work . But if we choose to think of them only as customers , they were customers who knew what they wanted and brought the printer under ...
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... amateur printer , and the amateur is the fellow who has fun . I do not wish to belittle the affection a professional printer may have for his work . He should love his work . But he can love it only in a different way : for after all he ...
... amateur printer , and the amateur is the fellow who has fun . I do not wish to belittle the affection a professional printer may have for his work . He should love his work . But he can love it only in a different way : for after all he ...
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... amateur printer . Now I wish to write of your duty and obliga- tion . The amateur book printer has a duty which , if he will accept it , will in the long run return to him the greatest satisfaction . This duty is to teach the ...
... amateur printer . Now I wish to write of your duty and obliga- tion . The amateur book printer has a duty which , if he will accept it , will in the long run return to him the greatest satisfaction . This duty is to teach 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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