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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When the Greeks used this letter they called it " digamma " ( double gamma ) and its form represented one " gamma " ( Greek c ) superimposed over the other . The Romans called it F ( ef ) and during the reign of Emperor Claudius the ...
When the Greeks used this letter they called it " digamma " ( double gamma ) and its form represented one " gamma " ( Greek c ) superimposed over the other . The Romans called it F ( ef ) and during the reign of Emperor Claudius the ...
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The Greeks reversed the stroke and called it " Nu " and the Romans did not change its form but called it N ( en ) . O In Phoenicia , as in Egypt , China and Mexico , the eye is one of the commonest elements found in the writing .
The Greeks reversed the stroke and called it " Nu " and the Romans did not change its form but called it N ( en ) . O In Phoenicia , as in Egypt , China and Mexico , the eye is one of the commonest elements found in the writing .
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W Our Anglo - Saxon forefathers contributed two letters , W ( wen ) and another often confused with Y , called " thorn . " These were introduced during the thirteenth century . The French al- ways called the former letter double vay ...
W Our Anglo - Saxon forefathers contributed two letters , W ( wen ) and another often confused with Y , called " thorn . " These were introduced during the thirteenth century . The French al- ways called the former letter double vay ...
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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 |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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