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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Página 134
... never had it . They get at the matter from another angle altogether . Their policy is to reduce the production cost to the minimum . The minimum in theory would be reached when the public complained . The public hasn't complained , so ...
... never had it . They get at the matter from another angle altogether . Their policy is to reduce the production cost to the minimum . The minimum in theory would be reached when the public complained . The public hasn't complained , so ...
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... never an office , never a secretary , never a sub - editor , never an office boy . The whole work was done by my mother and father and amateur helpers on and about the library table . If I was allowed in the room on press - days the ...
... never an office , never a secretary , never a sub - editor , never an office boy . The whole work was done by my mother and father and amateur helpers on and about the library table . If I was allowed in the room on press - days the ...
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... never spiteful , never morbid , never cruel . I personally pretend to run this Press , but you know this chimeric cockerel really rules the roost . When I and two friends took over the Press in 1933 , I had quite different ideas for it ...
... never spiteful , never morbid , never cruel . I personally pretend to run this Press , but you know this chimeric cockerel really rules the roost . When I and two friends took over the Press in 1933 , I had quite different ideas for it ...
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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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