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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... look at them from various points of view , as , for instance , how many were vegetarians , anarchists , bigamists and top sergeants . This could be so of any group of craftsmen . If we look at printers from another viewpoint , as to ...
... look at them from various points of view , as , for instance , how many were vegetarians , anarchists , bigamists and top sergeants . This could be so of any group of craftsmen . If we look at printers from another viewpoint , as to ...
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... look back at it there's one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb . We've got into a rut . The whole trade has . Not a shadow of a doubt about it . We let ourselves be ruled by a whole catalog of standards and values and " musts ...
... look back at it there's one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb . We've got into a rut . The whole trade has . Not a shadow of a doubt about it . We let ourselves be ruled by a whole catalog of standards and values and " musts ...
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... look younger . He has an orator's voice of Cornel འ forthest from kilfule , on los ught . inviting base and chat for the writery . In the converfoeding with on his left , an armohet . As there sa lying on , related and dosty , on Shelf ...
... look younger . He has an orator's voice of Cornel འ forthest from kilfule , on los ught . inviting base and chat for the writery . In the converfoeding with on his left , an armohet . As there sa lying on , related and dosty , on Shelf ...
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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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