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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There are a few examples among early surviving manuscripts of a separate leaf being used for the title , but they are quite exceptional , and even these give the title on the back of this leaf . The usual practice of the callig- rapher ...
There are a few examples among early surviving manuscripts of a separate leaf being used for the title , but they are quite exceptional , and even these give the title on the back of this leaf . The usual practice of the callig- rapher ...
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... and it is the par- ticular way in which each of these printers has sought to give expression to his conception of how his books should be printed and the way in which he has overcome the limitations of his type and plant and solved ...
... and it is the par- ticular way in which each of these printers has sought to give expression to his conception of how his books should be printed and the way in which he has overcome the limitations of his type and plant and solved ...
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... they must give good value to buyers , ensure good workmanship , and give their workmen no ground for complaint . They have fulfilled all three conditions , and as a result we still have a Bible Trust in England , which is a Trust in ...
... they must give good value to buyers , ensure good workmanship , and give their workmen no ground for complaint . They have fulfilled all three conditions , and as a result we still have a Bible Trust in England , which is a Trust in ...
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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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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| 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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