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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The Greeks , as was to be expected , turned the letter around , and later , oddly enough , introduced a curve making it exactly like the Roman letter P. The extra stroke which we find in the Roman letter was no doubt due to the ...
The Greeks , as was to be expected , turned the letter around , and later , oddly enough , introduced a curve making it exactly like the Roman letter P. The extra stroke which we find in the Roman letter was no doubt due to the ...
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The letters i , j , u and v As a general rule , until early in the seventeenth century there was only one capital letter , I ( in roman ) or J ( in black - letter ) , for the letters now represented by I and J ; and only one capital ...
The letters i , j , u and v As a general rule , until early in the seventeenth century there was only one capital letter , I ( in roman ) or J ( in black - letter ) , for the letters now represented by I and J ; and only one capital ...
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But the result then acquires something of the character of an object of art rather than a book . a Letter - spacing ... It is safe to say that lowercase type should practically never be letter - spaced , for the individual letters were ...
But the result then acquires something of the character of an object of art rather than a book . a Letter - spacing ... It is safe to say that lowercase type should practically never be letter - spaced , for the individual letters were ...
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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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