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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... give the title on the back of this leaf . The usual practice of the callig- rapher was to give any information considered desirable as to the author and the date and place of the making of the manu- script in the colophon . This ...
... give the title on the back of this leaf . The usual practice of the callig- rapher was to give any information considered desirable as to the author and the date and place of the making of the manu- script in the colophon . This ...
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... give a hang about the type and printing so long as they can read it . -That sounds like twenty years ago ! -I know . Very likely it does . -Haven't things changed ? -Not much . It's as true now as it was then . -But all this talking and ...
... give a hang about the type and printing so long as they can read it . -That sounds like twenty years ago ! -I know . Very likely it does . -Haven't things changed ? -Not much . It's as true now as it was then . -But all this talking and ...
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... give this result not to a few , but to a multitude . It has taken us from the day of ' the book beautiful , ' and given us the day of the beautiful book . " The fast moving cylinder presses of the Nonesuch Press have slowed up since ...
... give this result not to a few , but to a multitude . It has taken us from the day of ' the book beautiful , ' and given us the day of the beautiful book . " The fast moving cylinder presses of the Nonesuch Press have slowed up since ...
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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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