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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... leading unless set to a measure of more than 34 in . , there exist letters with short descenders designed rather to sustain leading by rule than by exception . Baskerville's is a type to which leading is invariably an advantage . The ...
... leading unless set to a measure of more than 34 in . , there exist letters with short descenders designed rather to sustain leading by rule than by exception . Baskerville's is a type to which leading is invariably an advantage . The ...
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... leading that a page requires depends on so many factors that it is difficult to give any fixed method of procedure ... leading , sometimes double - leading , arose . The effect of these new types was helped by a generous amount of white ...
... leading that a page requires depends on so many factors that it is difficult to give any fixed method of procedure ... leading , sometimes double - leading , arose . The effect of these new types was helped by a generous amount of white ...
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... leading to the offic e of his pawste secretary thie's Hilde Hanways . there wa of t ON THE ROCKS ACTL The fremdental ... leading The Mudes to ne private apartments ; and in the end of the same wall , on helps left , is a door leading to ...
... leading to the offic e of his pawste secretary thie's Hilde Hanways . there wa of t ON THE ROCKS ACTL The fremdental ... leading The Mudes to ne private apartments ; and in the end of the same wall , on helps left , is a door leading to ...
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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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