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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... books . What we call a modern best seller signifies a first edition of over 25,000 copies . In the fifteenth average edition was about century , the 300 copies . Till the middle of the eighteenth , an edition rarely exceeded 600 ; but ...
... books . What we call a modern best seller signifies a first edition of over 25,000 copies . In the fifteenth average edition was about century , the 300 copies . Till the middle of the eighteenth , an edition rarely exceeded 600 ; but ...
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... book - seller with some grumbling opened his shop , and by the twinkling taper ( for he was setting bedwards ) , lighted out the relic from his dusty treasures , and when you lugged it home , wishing it were twice as cumbersome , and ...
... book - seller with some grumbling opened his shop , and by the twinkling taper ( for he was setting bedwards ) , lighted out the relic from his dusty treasures , and when you lugged it home , wishing it were twice as cumbersome , and ...
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... books , ordered every printer and book- seller in France to have his own device so that purchasers might easily ascertain where books were printed and sold . Although ( with this exception ) the use of marks was volun- tary with ...
... books , ordered every printer and book- seller in France to have his own device so that purchasers might easily ascertain where books were printed and sold . Although ( with this exception ) the use of marks was volun- tary with ...
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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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