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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a what is more than a ceremonial password , an epitaph or a bill of goods , an incentive to record in writing what living people actually speak . It is indeed a far cry from the Greek drama to the free - and - easy visual speech of a ...
a what is more than a ceremonial password , an epitaph or a bill of goods , an incentive to record in writing what living people actually speak . It is indeed a far cry from the Greek drama to the free - and - easy visual speech of a ...
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... and he of taste also who is also man of business will , in their blameless efforts to earn a living ( for using one's wits is blameless , and earning a living is gas ennecessary ) , find many ways of giving a 0 • 264 .
... and he of taste also who is also man of business will , in their blameless efforts to earn a living ( for using one's wits is blameless , and earning a living is gas ennecessary ) , find many ways of giving a 0 • 264 .
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To watch the power of living things like salad greens and stringbeans pushing their way out of the seed , up through the earth , reaching down for water and up for sunlight with an irresistible drive , is to realize afresh the power of ...
To watch the power of living things like salad greens and stringbeans pushing their way out of the seed , up through the earth , reaching down for water and up for sunlight with an irresistible drive , is to realize afresh the power of ...
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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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