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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not learned to use the machines at their best , but accepted them like fruits in the Garden of Eden , and thought of nothing but how much we could get out of them in speed and quantity and profit . Because we can do with them easily ...
not learned to use the machines at their best , but accepted them like fruits in the Garden of Eden , and thought of nothing but how much we could get out of them in speed and quantity and profit . Because we can do with them easily ...
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There is no denying that I am old , and toward much that I see around me , I am reactionary ; and I have learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowledge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesiastes to the ...
There is no denying that I am old , and toward much that I see around me , I am reactionary ; and I have learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowledge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesiastes to the ...
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Although gold had been discovered at Sutter's sawmill in California on February 10th , 1848 , nearly two months before Mr. Root left Galesburg , it is not probable that he learned of that famous event until he reached Oregon in mid ...
Although gold had been discovered at Sutter's sawmill in California on February 10th , 1848 , nearly two months before Mr. Root left Galesburg , it is not probable that he learned of that famous event until he reached Oregon in mid ...
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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 alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple 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 |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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