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 proofs you gloat over at night will become commonplace by dawn . . . . " You will make misjudgments about the intelligence of ordinary readers . You will make mistakes of taste . You will find it too easy to get an effect by means ...
The proofs you gloat over at night will become commonplace by dawn . . . . " You will make misjudgments about the intelligence of ordinary readers . You will make mistakes of taste . You will find it too easy to get an effect by means ...
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As we become more and more able to print finer and more elaborate and delicate types of letter it becomes more and more intellectually imperative to standardize all forms and obliterate all elaborations and fancifulness .
As we become more and more able to print finer and more elaborate and delicate types of letter it becomes more and more intellectually imperative to standardize all forms and obliterate all elaborations and fancifulness .
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And , if you do strike a vein with the glitter of real gold in it , you will become rich indeed . For you will have become a creator in a new sense ; your duty done as an amateur will be compensated with a twenty - four - carat ...
And , if you do strike a vein with the glitter of real gold in it , you will become rich indeed . For you will have become a creator in a new sense ; your duty done as an amateur will be compensated with a twenty - four - carat ...
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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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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| 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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