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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... later John of Spire , like Fust a goldsmith , had started work in Venice . In Switzerland , says McMurtrie , it seems likely that " the first printing office in Basle began work about 1467. " Printing in Paris starts about a year later ...
... later John of Spire , like Fust a goldsmith , had started work in Venice . In Switzerland , says McMurtrie , it seems likely that " the first printing office in Basle began work about 1467. " Printing in Paris starts about a year later ...
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... later of Munich . He pro- tested against a practice there manifested of discarding capital letters and depending solely on those in the lower - case . I con- soled him by showing him a French book , printed entirely in this style . This ...
... later of Munich . He pro- tested against a practice there manifested of discarding capital letters and depending solely on those in the lower - case . I con- soled him by showing him a French book , printed entirely in this style . This ...
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... later admitted that he himself was " perhaps ... too saucy and provoking , ” and that James , despite " the blows his passion too often urged him to bestow upon me , " was " otherwise not an ill - natur'd man . " Benjamin , at all ...
... later admitted that he himself was " perhaps ... too saucy and provoking , ” and that James , despite " the blows his passion too often urged him to bestow upon me , " was " otherwise not an ill - natur'd man . " Benjamin , at all ...
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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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