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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... Legibility is relative , as I am reminded by my own experience , for myself when young did eagerly frequent Pickering's Diamond Clas- sics - a practice I should probably have defended with conviction .236 . Hiere begynneth the seconde ...
... Legibility is relative , as I am reminded by my own experience , for myself when young did eagerly frequent Pickering's Diamond Clas- sics - a practice I should probably have defended with conviction .236 . Hiere begynneth the seconde ...
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... legibility . In this he differed from another poet and amateur of printing , Robert Bridges , who used Gothic characters for the Daniel Press edition of his poems to induce slow ingestion . Morris believed that solidity of type and ...
... legibility . In this he differed from another poet and amateur of printing , Robert Bridges , who used Gothic characters for the Daniel Press edition of his poems to induce slow ingestion . Morris believed that solidity of type and ...
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... legibility is the greatest enemy , the infamous thing that must at all costs be crushed . We read , he argues , too easily . Our eyes slide over the words , and the words , in consequence , mean nothing to us . An illegible type makes ...
... legibility is the greatest enemy , the infamous thing that must at all costs be crushed . We read , he argues , too easily . Our eyes slide over the words , and the words , in consequence , mean nothing to us . An illegible type makes ...
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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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