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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That the new technique of printing made available for the great explorations of the fifteenth century a new scientific amenity for which there was a pre - existing and insistent demand is evident from the mounting number of nautical ...
That the new technique of printing made available for the great explorations of the fifteenth century a new scientific amenity for which there was a pre - existing and insistent demand is evident from the mounting number of nautical ...
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In the second half of the century two rival fashions of decoration were developed which finally banished the woodcut border , first the method of decoration by type ornaments or printers ' flowers , and secondly the engraved title page ...
In the second half of the century two rival fashions of decoration were developed which finally banished the woodcut border , first the method of decoration by type ornaments or printers ' flowers , and secondly the engraved title page ...
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But it is with the seventeenth century especially that engraved borders are associated . The Elzevirs used them even on their pocket editions , while at the other extreme the massive volumes issued at Amsterdam and at Paris in the reign ...
But it is with the seventeenth century especially that engraved borders are associated . The Elzevirs used them even on their pocket editions , while at the other extreme the massive volumes issued at Amsterdam and at Paris in the reign ...
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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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