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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... manuscript hands of the past . Interesting as old manuscripts are , I find them of little practical use as offering models for new types . Speaking for myself only I find it more feasible to get my inspirations from a study of the ...
... manuscript hands of the past . Interesting as old manuscripts are , I find them of little practical use as offering models for new types . Speaking for myself only I find it more feasible to get my inspirations from a study of the ...
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... manuscripts of the period . Juvenis : The black - letter of every early printer was but a servile copy of the ... manuscript copy . All the early books abound in infelicities of design and cutting , indicating that the work was ...
... manuscripts of the period . Juvenis : The black - letter of every early printer was but a servile copy of the ... manuscript copy . All the early books abound in infelicities of design and cutting , indicating that the work was ...
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... manuscript . Built - up and written forms each have their place . One of the tenets of fine letter art is that the forms be in perfect taste ; that is , that the letter and its method of production be in harmony with its use . A ...
... manuscript . Built - up and written forms each have their place . One of the tenets of fine letter art is that the forms be in perfect taste ; that is , that the letter and its method of production be in harmony with its use . A ...
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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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