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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... Learned have always judged far otherways ; and have , with Reason , thought , That , for almost the Three Ages wherein this Wonder hath been seen in Europe , the Wit of Man did never invent any Thing that was either more lucky , or more ...
... Learned have always judged far otherways ; and have , with Reason , thought , That , for almost the Three Ages wherein this Wonder hath been seen in Europe , the Wit of Man did never invent any Thing that was either more lucky , or more ...
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... learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowl- edge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesi- astes to the effect that there is nothing new under the sun . I plead guilty to this hideous indictment and throw ...
... learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowl- edge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesi- astes to the effect that there is nothing new under the sun . I plead guilty to this hideous indictment and throw ...
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... learned of that famous event until he reached Oregon in mid - September . The news spread slowly even on the Pacific coast , credible reports reaching San Francisco only in May . Mr. Root says that the excitement ( ' yellow fever , ' he ...
... learned of that famous event until he reached Oregon in mid - September . The news spread slowly even on the Pacific coast , credible reports reaching San Francisco only in May . Mr. Root says that the excitement ( ' yellow fever , ' he ...
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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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