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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Fox remained in Sower's establishment , presumably engaged in casting the large quantity of type required to keep standing an edition of the Bible . In addition to this routine work he is said to have cut and cast an unspecified amount ...
Fox remained in Sower's establishment , presumably engaged in casting the large quantity of type required to keep standing an edition of the Bible . In addition to this routine work he is said to have cut and cast an unspecified amount ...
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McCulloch was emphatic in his praise of the sturdiness of Fox's types , but when he remarked to Archibald Binny upon the excellent wearing quality of a set of figures and capitals cast by the Germantown founder , which he and his father ...
McCulloch was emphatic in his praise of the sturdiness of Fox's types , but when he remarked to Archibald Binny upon the excellent wearing quality of a set of figures and capitals cast by the Germantown founder , which he and his father ...
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With no engraving or casting plant ready to my hand I began the getting together of the various paraphernalia of a ... the lining and fitting of the cast types , etc. , all after I had reached my sixtieth birthday , was something else .
With no engraving or casting plant ready to my hand I began the getting together of the various paraphernalia of a ... the lining and fitting of the cast types , etc. , all after I had reached my sixtieth birthday , was something else .
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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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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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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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