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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... beauty of the hand - written and hand - painted psalters then in use , to the dignity of the first Bibles there was added beauty and charm , and in a few years bookmen all over Europe were eager to apply the new craft to multiplying the ...
... beauty of the hand - written and hand - painted psalters then in use , to the dignity of the first Bibles there was added beauty and charm , and in a few years bookmen all over Europe were eager to apply the new craft to multiplying the ...
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... beauty will take care of itself , is true in both worlds . The beauty that Industrialism properly produces is the beauty of bones ; the beauty that radiates from the work of men is the beauty of the living face . COMPOSED IN PERPETUA ...
... beauty will take care of itself , is true in both worlds . The beauty that Industrialism properly produces is the beauty of bones ; the beauty that radiates from the work of men is the beauty of the living face . COMPOSED IN PERPETUA ...
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... beauty yet more unrealizable . Where the Chinese freely painted we must be content with re- producing geometrical ... beauty- a modern beauty , while we are about it . For we live in the twen- tieth century ; let us frankly admit it and ...
... beauty yet more unrealizable . Where the Chinese freely painted we must be content with re- producing geometrical ... beauty- a modern beauty , while we are about it . For we live in the twen- tieth century ; let us frankly admit it and ...
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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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