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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But from my father , of course . And then I realised that , if he likes it or not , the Nonesuch Press is really my father's grand - son . In establishing it I was doing no more than reverting to type . There was of course the literary ...
But from my father , of course . And then I realised that , if he likes it or not , the Nonesuch Press is really my father's grand - son . In establishing it I was doing no more than reverting to type . There was of course the literary ...
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And such as entertaine themselves with , I wot not what kind of course , which they call naturall , promiseth some few yeares beyond , might do it , had they a privilege that could exempt them from so great a number of accidents ...
And such as entertaine themselves with , I wot not what kind of course , which they call naturall , promiseth some few yeares beyond , might do it , had they a privilege that could exempt them from so great a number of accidents ...
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The Pie , ' writes Mores , ' was a table showing the course of the service of the church in the time of darkness . It was called the Pie because it was written in letters of black and red , as the Friars de Pica were so named ...
The Pie , ' writes Mores , ' was a table showing the course of the service of the church in the time of darkness . It was called the Pie because it was written in letters of black and red , as the Friars de Pica were so named ...
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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 advertising alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals century character common COMPOSED copy course decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give hand human idea illustrations important interest issued Italy kind known later leading least less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mechanical mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period piece possible practice present printer printing produced publisher reader reason Reprinted result Roman rules seems sense Shaw 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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