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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... movable type began in Europe about fifty years before Columbus set out on his first voyage ; but few of us reflect upon the dramatic speed with which the new trade spread from one city or one country to another . A single leaf of a ...
... movable type began in Europe about fifty years before Columbus set out on his first voyage ; but few of us reflect upon the dramatic speed with which the new trade spread from one city or one country to another . A single leaf of a ...
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... movable type was going on in several German cities other than Mainz and Strasbourg . German printers brought the art to Rome in 1467 , and two years later John of Spire , like Fust a goldsmith , had started work in Venice . In ...
... movable type was going on in several German cities other than Mainz and Strasbourg . German printers brought the art to Rome in 1467 , and two years later John of Spire , like Fust a goldsmith , had started work in Venice . In ...
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... movable type in Ger- many ; and if this invention came to nothing , have we far to seek the explanation ? With twenty - six pigeonholes for a box of letter type at his elbow , the European compositor of the fifteenth cen- tury enjoys an ...
... movable type in Ger- many ; and if this invention came to nothing , have we far to seek the explanation ? With twenty - six pigeonholes for a box of letter type at his elbow , the European compositor of the fifteenth cen- tury enjoys an ...
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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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