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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They demand a kind of paper that is never a satis- factory book - paper . In the case of the kind of books we are talk- ing about the relief line methods have always given the most artistic results , because they are so closely related ...
They demand a kind of paper that is never a satis- factory book - paper . In the case of the kind of books we are talk- ing about the relief line methods have always given the most artistic results , because they are so closely related ...
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And such as entertaine themselves with , I wot not what kind of course , which they call naturall , promiseth some few yeares beyond , might do it , had they a privilege that could exempt them from so great a number of accidents ...
And such as entertaine themselves with , I wot not what kind of course , which they call naturall , promiseth some few yeares beyond , might do it , had they a privilege that could exempt them from so great a number of accidents ...
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It becomes easier and easier to print any kind of thing , but more and more imperative to print only one kind . On the other hand , those who use humane methods can never achieve mechanical perfection , because the slaveries and ...
It becomes easier and easier to print any kind of thing , but more and more imperative to print only one kind . On the other hand , those who use humane methods can never achieve mechanical perfection , because the slaveries and ...
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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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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz advertising alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals century character common COMPOSED copy course decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give hand human idea illustrations important interest issued Italy kind known later leading least less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mechanical mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period piece possible practice present printer printing produced publisher reader reason Reprinted result Roman rules seems sense Shaw space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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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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