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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... early Greeks . Our sixth letter , F , is missing in classical Greek , but it is found in earlier writings . It comes from a Phoe- nician representation of a hook or nail ( ? ) " vau . " The Hebrew form resembles the latter object . The ...
... early Greeks . Our sixth letter , F , is missing in classical Greek , but it is found in earlier writings . It comes from a Phoe- nician representation of a hook or nail ( ? ) " vau . " The Hebrew form resembles the latter object . The ...
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... earliest extant product of the new technique , probably issued about the year 1445 from the press of Gutenberg ... early as 1478 , a Cologne master printer issued a Bible in two different German dialects with well over a hundred ...
... earliest extant product of the new technique , probably issued about the year 1445 from the press of Gutenberg ... early as 1478 , a Cologne master printer issued a Bible in two different German dialects with well over a hundred ...
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... early typography , he will not consult the ' Bible of Forty - two Lines ' for a disputed text , when a more readable edi- tion is accessible . Senex : You confound two features of typography that should be kept separate . The shapes of ...
... early typography , he will not consult the ' Bible of Forty - two Lines ' for a disputed text , when a more readable edi- tion is accessible . Senex : You confound two features of typography that should be kept separate . The shapes of ...
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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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