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 , in the form of superadded decora- tions , much as Morris did . But there was a marked difference be- tween them , for Morris knew better . Although to him beauty meant decoration or ornament , yet in the first edition of The ...
... beauty , in the form of superadded decora- tions , much as Morris did . But there was a marked difference be- tween them , for Morris knew better . Although to him beauty meant decoration or ornament , yet in the first edition of 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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