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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... craft ? -The craft of printing , obviously . What I am trying to get at is this : -There are certain precise and matured standards of work- manship in the printing craft ; these standards are the results of experiment through nearly ...
... craft ? -The craft of printing , obviously . What I am trying to get at is this : -There are certain precise and matured standards of work- manship in the printing craft ; these standards are the results of experiment through nearly ...
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... craft ? -The employers ' associations have one idea - a little different from the idea of the unions , perhaps , but not concerned with the improvement of printing . There are trade schools but they teach only the mechanics of the craft ...
... craft ? -The employers ' associations have one idea - a little different from the idea of the unions , perhaps , but not concerned with the improvement of printing . There are trade schools but they teach only the mechanics of the craft ...
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... craft was a new one , it was necessarily run in the first instance by men who had been brought up in other occupa- tions . In this sense nearly every native printer outside Germany was an amateur . At the outset the newcomers were ...
... craft was a new one , it was necessarily run in the first instance by men who had been brought up in other occupa- tions . In this sense nearly every native printer outside Germany was an amateur . At the outset the newcomers were ...
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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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