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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... folio , nobly enthroned upon its lec- tern . Again , there is nothing incongruous or unpractical about the scholar ( perhaps I should say , " research - worker " ) making use of a huge volume , spread before him on a library table ...
... folio , nobly enthroned upon its lec- tern . Again , there is nothing incongruous or unpractical about the scholar ( perhaps I should say , " research - worker " ) making use of a huge volume , spread before him on a library table ...
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... folio height ( defined approxi- mately by the larger moulds employed for manufacturing hand- made paper ) while its bulk and weight should not preclude the possibility of holding it by the spine with one hand while turn- ing the leaves ...
... folio height ( defined approxi- mately by the larger moulds employed for manufacturing hand- made paper ) while its bulk and weight should not preclude the possibility of holding it by the spine with one hand while turn- ing the leaves ...
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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Section Title and folio arabic 1 , backed blank 2 and first page of text folio 3. Similar half title for all other Parts or Sections folioed in . " Peter Beilenson , whose comment on the ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Section Title and folio arabic 1 , backed blank 2 and first page of text folio 3. Similar half title for all other Parts or Sections folioed in . " Peter Beilenson , whose comment on 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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