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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... artist ? -None , I should say . You see , the pictures are not really a necessary part of the book . They are a kind of frill that the public has got in the way of expecting , and we have to put them in . Illustrations as a rule stand ...
... artist ? -None , I should say . You see , the pictures are not really a necessary part of the book . They are a kind of frill that the public has got in the way of expecting , and we have to put them in . Illustrations as a rule stand ...
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... artist , and the result should be a piece of fine printing . A publisher who knows what he wants employs a printer who is not an artist , and the result will depend on the degree of taste of the publisher . A publisher who either does ...
... artist , and the result should be a piece of fine printing . A publisher who knows what he wants employs a printer who is not an artist , and the result will depend on the degree of taste of the publisher . A publisher who either does ...
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... artistic qualities , i.e. , inven- tion , novelty , style , beauty , distinction ( a few insist on legibility ) ; most of those users forget or do not realize that these are qualities an artist only may secure , and even the artist ...
... artistic qualities , i.e. , inven- tion , novelty , style , beauty , distinction ( a few insist on legibility ) ; most of those users forget or do not realize that these are qualities an artist only may secure , and even the artist ...
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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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