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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... craftsman , but a businessman who undertook the risk of production and distribution of quantities of books for a variety of readers throughout Europe . more than mechanic , compositor and pressman ? Who chose ⚫97⚫ EVELYN HARTER.
... craftsman , but a businessman who undertook the risk of production and distribution of quantities of books for a variety of readers throughout Europe . more than mechanic , compositor and pressman ? Who chose ⚫97⚫ EVELYN HARTER.
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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. more than mechanic , compositor and pressman ? Who chose the copy , proofread it , set policies , pushed the work along ? Possibly some of the founders of the new Harvard College , or possibly ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. more than mechanic , compositor and pressman ? Who chose the copy , proofread it , set policies , pushed the work along ? Possibly some of the founders of the new Harvard College , or possibly ...
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... compositor had a numbered slug that he dumped on the galley with his stickful of set matter . When the galley was proved he kept a copy , and at the end of the day pasted up his work , being careful to join the takes closely , signed ...
... compositor had a numbered slug that he dumped on the galley with his stickful of set matter . When the galley was proved he kept a copy , and at the end of the day pasted up his work , being careful to join the takes closely , signed ...
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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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