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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... Invention and Progress of the Mysterious Art of PRINTING & C. IF THE Ignorant look upon PRINTING without admiring It ; it is , because they do not understand the same : The Learned have always judged far otherways ; and have , with ...
... Invention and Progress of the Mysterious Art of PRINTING & C. IF THE Ignorant look upon PRINTING without admiring It ; it is , because they do not understand the same : The Learned have always judged far otherways ; and have , with ...
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... Invention , and vast Improvement , of the no less honourable , than useful and admirable Art of PRINTING , which we profess , deserves a very eminent Place : Since by It , all Sorts of Learning , Sacred or Profane , and every Kind of ...
... Invention , and vast Improvement , of the no less honourable , than useful and admirable Art of PRINTING , which we profess , deserves a very eminent Place : Since by It , all Sorts of Learning , Sacred or Profane , and every Kind of ...
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... invention . We have an old book of stories for children which describes Gutenberg in a dream : " He thought of the great harm which might be done through the printing of bad books — how they would corrupt the minds of the innocent , how ...
... invention . We have an old book of stories for children which describes Gutenberg in a dream : " He thought of the great harm which might be done through the printing of bad books — how they would corrupt the minds of the innocent , how ...
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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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