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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... machine patented by Cowper and Applegarth in 1827 ran off 5,000 sheets per hour of the London Times simultaneously printed on both sides . The Walter Rotary of 1866 appears to have been the first cylinder machine to print on both sides ...
... machine patented by Cowper and Applegarth in 1827 ran off 5,000 sheets per hour of the London Times simultaneously printed on both sides . The Walter Rotary of 1866 appears to have been the first cylinder machine to print on both sides ...
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... machine - made glass and metal - ware , if it be designed for the machine and does not attempt to imitate the hand - made , and we find in it a quality different from , but not necessarily inferior to , that of the more elegant article ...
... machine - made glass and metal - ware , if it be designed for the machine and does not attempt to imitate the hand - made , and we find in it a quality different from , but not necessarily inferior to , that of the more elegant article ...
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... machine printers of today . You will see that decay is already beginning to set in in the machine book . The edges of the paper will soon turn yellow and the ink begin to spread . I hesitate to turn from the processes of making a fine ...
... machine printers of today . You will see that decay is already beginning to set in in the machine book . The edges of the paper will soon turn yellow and the ink begin to spread . I hesitate to turn from the processes of making a fine ...
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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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