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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... imprint . It remained on the tailboard of the Courant until the paper's discontinuance in 1726 , long after Benjamin had left Boston . The gratifying tableau of two stalwart brothers battling loy- ally side by side for freedom of the ...
... imprint . It remained on the tailboard of the Courant until the paper's discontinuance in 1726 , long after Benjamin had left Boston . The gratifying tableau of two stalwart brothers battling loy- ally side by side for freedom of the ...
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... imprint . Sewell's History is doubly a Franklin item , as Franklin must have worked on the book while he was still in Keimer's employ . Thanks to the diligence of its proprietors - or of one of them , for Meredith " was often seen drunk ...
... imprint . Sewell's History is doubly a Franklin item , as Franklin must have worked on the book while he was still in Keimer's employ . Thanks to the diligence of its proprietors - or of one of them , for Meredith " was often seen drunk ...
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... imprint , 378–80 Galloway , Joseph , 74 Garamond , Claude , 92 , 93 , 276 Garamond type face , 62 , 223 , 256 ... imprints , 357 , 361 , 364 , 366 " Improvement of Printing Back- wards , " 227 New England Courant , 355-56 ...
... imprint , 378–80 Galloway , Joseph , 74 Garamond , Claude , 92 , 93 , 276 Garamond type face , 62 , 223 , 256 ... imprints , 357 , 361 , 364 , 366 " Improvement of Printing Back- wards , " 227 New England Courant , 355-56 ...
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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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