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 query mark seems to have been used in England from about 1521 . ; The semicolon seems to have been first used in England about 1569 , but was not common until 1580 or thereabouts . . The full stop was commonly used before as well as ...
The query mark seems to have been used in England from about 1521 . ; The semicolon seems to have been first used in England about 1569 , but was not common until 1580 or thereabouts . . The full stop was commonly used before as well as ...
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My own interest and ambition in founding the Nonesuch was to see to the paper and other common errors of mercenary printing ; but D.G. and V.M. aspired to tackle the question of amendments as well . From our fourth book onwards that ...
My own interest and ambition in founding the Nonesuch was to see to the paper and other common errors of mercenary printing ; but D.G. and V.M. aspired to tackle the question of amendments as well . From our fourth book onwards that ...
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He may try an experiment in a tract printed in an edition of 50 copies , but he shows little common sense if he experiments to the same degree in the tract having a run of 50,000 . Again , a novelty , fitly introduced into a 16 - page ...
He may try an experiment in a tract printed in an edition of 50 copies , but he shows little common sense if he experiments to the same degree in the tract having a run of 50,000 . Again , a novelty , fitly introduced into a 16 - page ...
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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
Información bibliográfica
| 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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