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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F Our letter order does not agree with that of the Phoenicians or 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 ...
F Our letter order does not agree with that of the Phoenicians or 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 ...
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A single leaf of a sibylline poem called the Fragment of World Judgment is supposedly the earliest extant product of the new technique , probably issued about the year 1445 from the press of Gutenberg , a master printer , then resident ...
A single leaf of a sibylline poem called the Fragment of World Judgment is supposedly the earliest extant product of the new technique , probably issued about the year 1445 from the press of Gutenberg , a master printer , then resident ...
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It is enough for me to know that the literary world , outside of Germany , moved by common impulse , discarded all the early types . The sacred black - letter of Gutenberg , and other forms , went to oblivion for good reason .
It is enough for me to know that the literary world , outside of Germany , moved by common impulse , discarded all the early types . The sacred black - letter of Gutenberg , and other forms , went to oblivion for good reason .
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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
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| 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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