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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... foundry on his own account . In this separate establishment , it is likely that he was able to devote to the business such time and energy as would be required in making a font of sufficient size to accommodate the needs of such a ...
... foundry on his own account . In this separate establishment , it is likely that he was able to devote to the business such time and energy as would be required in making a font of sufficient size to accommodate the needs of such a ...
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... foundry . Procuring machines for a type foundry was comparatively simple ; the operation of them , making patterns for use in the engraving machines , the lining and fitting of the cast types , etc. , all after I had reached my sixtieth ...
... foundry . Procuring machines for a type foundry was comparatively simple ; the operation of them , making patterns for use in the engraving machines , the lining and fitting of the cast types , etc. , all after I had reached my sixtieth ...
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... foundry put out a book as big as a dictionary , filled with bizarre creations in which the innocent alphabet was twisted and tormented and decorated until some of its masterpieces were illegible . Among them were a number informally ...
... foundry put out a book as big as a dictionary , filled with bizarre creations in which the innocent alphabet was twisted and tormented and decorated until some of its masterpieces were illegible . Among them were a number informally ...
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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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