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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... common until 1580 or thereabouts . . The full stop was commonly used before as well as after roman , and sometimes also arabic , numerals until about 1580 . Thus " .xii . " It was also used before and after i ( .i . = id est ) and f ...
... common until 1580 or thereabouts . . The full stop was commonly used before as well as after roman , and sometimes also arabic , numerals until about 1580 . Thus " .xii . " It was also used before and after i ( .i . = id est ) and f ...
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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. to the paper , and other common errors of mercenary printing . " My own interest and ambition in founding the Nonesuch was to see to the paper and other common errors of mercenary printing ; but ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. to the paper , and other common errors of mercenary printing . " My own interest and ambition in founding the Nonesuch was to see to the paper and other common errors of mercenary printing ; but ...
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... common purpose . The wider that purpose , the stricter are the limitations imposed upon the printer . He may try an experiment in a tract printed in an edition of 50 copies , but he shows little common sense if he experi- ments to the ...
... common purpose . The wider that purpose , the stricter are the limitations imposed upon the printer . He may try an experiment in a tract printed in an edition of 50 copies , but he shows little common sense if he experi- ments to the ...
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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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