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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... case ) , and second the alphabet which printers call ROMAN LOWER - CASE . The latter , tho ' derived from the Capitals , is a distinct alphabet . Third we have the alphabet called ITALIC , also derived from the Capitals but through ...
... case ) , and second the alphabet which printers call ROMAN LOWER - CASE . The latter , tho ' derived from the Capitals , is a distinct alphabet . Third we have the alphabet called ITALIC , also derived from the Capitals but through ...
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... Lower - case or Italics of their essential differences . aefg aefg Figure 2 in which the upper line of letters is essentially " Roman Lower- case " ; the lower essentially " Italic . " marks of difference . A Roman Capital A does not ...
... Lower - case or Italics of their essential differences . aefg aefg Figure 2 in which the upper line of letters is essentially " Roman Lower- case " ; the lower essentially " Italic . " marks of difference . A Roman Capital A does not ...
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... Lower - case and Italics with their customary as well as their essential differences . right . It is customary to make Lower - case smaller than Capitals when the two are used together ; and it is customary to make Italics nar- rower than ...
... Lower - case and Italics with their customary as well as their essential differences . right . It is customary to make Lower - case smaller than Capitals when the two are used together ; and it is customary to make Italics nar- rower than ...
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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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