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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An edition of the Vulgate printed at Venice in 1487 by Georgius Arrivabene offers an example of the most rudimentary form of a title page , with the single word Biblia on the first leaf . The example of Ratdolt at Venice , who in 1476 ...
An edition of the Vulgate printed at Venice in 1487 by Georgius Arrivabene offers an example of the most rudimentary form of a title page , with the single word Biblia on the first leaf . The example of Ratdolt at Venice , who in 1476 ...
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After 1500 , examples of bor- ders made up of separate cast pieces are fairly frequent and are especially common in England in the books of Wynkyn de Worde and his contemporaries . But it is not until about 1560 that we find borders ...
After 1500 , examples of bor- ders made up of separate cast pieces are fairly frequent and are especially common in England in the books of Wynkyn de Worde and his contemporaries . But it is not until about 1560 that we find borders ...
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From 1548 the books of Enea Vico printed at Venice begin the fashion in Italy , where , after 1550 , examples are fairly numer- ous . In the Netherlands also , beginning with the work of Hubert Goltzius at Bruges , they are met with ...
From 1548 the books of Enea Vico printed at Venice begin the fashion in Italy , where , after 1550 , examples are fairly numer- ous . In the Netherlands also , beginning with the work of Hubert Goltzius at Bruges , they are met with ...
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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
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| 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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