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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JAMES WATSON ** The HISTORY of the Invention and Progress of the Mysterious Art of PRINTING & C. IF THE Ignorant look upon PRINTING without admiring It ; it is , because they do not understand the same : The Learned have always judged ...
JAMES WATSON ** The HISTORY of the Invention and Progress of the Mysterious Art of PRINTING & C. IF THE Ignorant look upon PRINTING without admiring It ; it is , because they do not understand the same : The Learned have always judged ...
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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 knowl- edge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesi- astes to ...
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 knowl- edge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesi- astes to ...
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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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| 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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