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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... mechanical factor , but because mechanical engraving in relief cannot produce a line of the delicacy and purity obtained with the engraving tool . As a corollary to the principle of integration set forth above let us take first the type ...
... mechanical factor , but because mechanical engraving in relief cannot produce a line of the delicacy and purity obtained with the engraving tool . As a corollary to the principle of integration set forth above let us take first the type ...
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... mechanical perfection , and of the other sanctity - the commercial article at its best is simply physically serviceable and , per accidens , beautiful in its efficiency ; the work of art at its best is beautiful in its very sub- stance ...
... mechanical perfection , and of the other sanctity - the commercial article at its best is simply physically serviceable and , per accidens , beautiful in its efficiency ; the work of art at its best is beautiful in its very sub- stance ...
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... mechanical perfection . The imitation of the work of pre - industrial periods cannot make any important ultimate difference ; the introduction of industrial methods and appliances into small workshops cannot make such workshops capa ...
... mechanical perfection . The imitation of the work of pre - industrial periods cannot make any important ultimate difference ; the introduction of industrial methods and appliances into small workshops cannot make such workshops capa ...
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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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