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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... edition of over 25,000 copies . In the fifteenth century , the average edition was about 300 copies . Till the middle of the eighteenth , an edition rarely exceeded 600 ; but there were notable exceptions . There were 34 editions of the ...
... edition of over 25,000 copies . In the fifteenth century , the average edition was about 300 copies . Till the middle of the eighteenth , an edition rarely exceeded 600 ; but there were notable exceptions . There were 34 editions of the ...
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... edition , even if it cost me rather more . But if the English edition had been printed on better paper , it would have been the easier of the two editions to read ... " With the exception of the last sentence , the whole of this passage ...
... edition , even if it cost me rather more . But if the English edition had been printed on better paper , it would have been the easier of the two editions to read ... " With the exception of the last sentence , the whole of this passage ...
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... Edition was discussed , Shaw still preferred Caslon , but agreed to a larger size , pica solid , on a larger page ... Edition in large crown octavo in small - pica Fournier 11⁄21⁄2 - points leaded . In the final choice of type for the ...
... Edition was discussed , Shaw still preferred Caslon , but agreed to a larger size , pica solid , on a larger page ... Edition in large crown octavo in small - pica Fournier 11⁄21⁄2 - points leaded . In the final choice of type for the ...
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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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