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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The number of editions printed in England increased from 13 in 1510 to 219 in 1580 , to about 600 a year in the first two decades of the nineteenth century and 12,379 in 1913. Unhappily , an edition is a grossly misleading index of ...
The number of editions printed in England increased from 13 in 1510 to 219 in 1580 , to about 600 a year in the first two decades of the nineteenth century and 12,379 in 1913. Unhappily , an edition is a grossly misleading index of ...
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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 seems misleading and irrelevant .
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 seems misleading and irrelevant .
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In the middle twenties when the project of a Limited Collected Edition was discussed , Shaw still preferred Caslon , but agreed to a larger size , pica solid , on a larger page , medium octavo . But , and to William Maxwell it was a ...
In the middle twenties when the project of a Limited Collected Edition was discussed , Shaw still preferred Caslon , but agreed to a larger size , pica solid , on a larger page , medium octavo . But , and to William Maxwell it was a ...
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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 alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple 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 |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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