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 four - cylinder 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 ...
The four - cylinder 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 ...
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Everyone has come to recognize certain aesthetic values in cheap 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 ...
Everyone has come to recognize certain aesthetic values in cheap 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 ...
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you think the time not well spent compare a book from the Kelmscott Press with any of the books of our best machine printers of today . You will see that decay is already beginning to set in in the machine book .
you think the time not well spent compare a book from the Kelmscott Press with any of the books of our best machine printers of today . You will see that decay is already beginning to set in in the machine book .
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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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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| 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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