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 process is a way of doing a thing that cannot be done cheaply by any other means . -Do you consider it a process that adds to the artistic possi- bilities of book printing ? -You mean according to the standards that prevailed in ...
-The process is a way of doing a thing that cannot be done cheaply by any other means . -Do you consider it a process that adds to the artistic possi- bilities of book printing ? -You mean according to the standards that prevailed in ...
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What that means in simple arithmetic is that when a novel is increased from a 72 inch 12mo to an 8 % inch large 12mo , and the bulk from 1 inch to 1 % inches , it requires a third more cubic inches of paper , a sev- enth more square ...
What that means in simple arithmetic is that when a novel is increased from a 72 inch 12mo to an 8 % inch large 12mo , and the bulk from 1 inch to 1 % inches , it requires a third more cubic inches of paper , a sev- enth more square ...
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Our stock - in - trade has been the theory that mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends ; that the machine in printing was a controllable tool . Therefore we set out to be mobilisers of other people's resources ; to be ...
Our stock - in - trade has been the theory that mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends ; that the machine in printing was a controllable tool . Therefore we set out to be mobilisers of other people's resources ; to be ...
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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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