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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found that their absence may effectively ruin even a composition in large type , so that it is true to say that the intelligent use of leading distinguishes the expert from the inexpert printer . A slight differentiation of typeface may ...
found that their absence may effectively ruin even a composition in large type , so that it is true to say that the intelligent use of leading distinguishes the expert from the inexpert printer . A slight differentiation of typeface may ...
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The amount of leading that a page requires depends on so many factors that it is difficult to give any fixed method of procedure . The kind of type , the size of type , the length of line and the general character of the text all bear ...
The amount of leading that a page requires depends on so many factors that it is difficult to give any fixed method of procedure . The kind of type , the size of type , the length of line and the general character of the text all bear ...
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leading this hardly and in a the table whe of t w in his lift , is a door leading to the offlin of his pawats secratory this's Wilde Stanways . ON THE ROCKS e prendenteal chair is the ACH The Cabinet Room in number ten Downing Street ...
leading this hardly and in a the table whe of t w in his lift , is a door leading to the offlin of his pawats secratory this's Wilde Stanways . ON THE ROCKS e prendenteal chair is the ACH The Cabinet Room in number ten Downing Street ...
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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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| 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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