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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... course that the established standards of printing would serve it as guide - posts and criteria . It expected to traverse a country where the highways were in need of repair , perhaps , and the marks of direction dim , but on the whole a ...
... course that the established standards of printing would serve it as guide - posts and criteria . It expected to traverse a country where the highways were in need of repair , perhaps , and the marks of direction dim , but on the whole a ...
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... 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 background , the great ...
... 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 background , the great ...
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... 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 , unto which each one of us stands subject by a naturall subjection ...
... 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 , unto which each one of us stands subject by a naturall subjection ...
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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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