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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In advertising dis- play it makes use of that highly original and refreshing device of printing what is to be read at a cockeyed angle . The makeup expert indulges that other fresh and original dodge of bleeding pictures off the edge of ...
In advertising dis- play it makes use of that highly original and refreshing device of printing what is to be read at a cockeyed angle . The makeup expert indulges that other fresh and original dodge of bleeding pictures off the edge of ...
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The Linotype cutting used here , most faithful to the orig- inal roman , was produced from a complete font cast from the original matrices , exhumed at Paris in 1929. For twenty years Baskerville has been a favored type with American ...
The Linotype cutting used here , most faithful to the orig- inal roman , was produced from a complete font cast from the original matrices , exhumed at Paris in 1929. For twenty years Baskerville has been a favored type with American ...
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It is neither a copy of a classic face nor an original creation , but rather something between the two , with its basic de- sign stemming from classic Garamond sources . An exceedingly compact and useful old style , Granjon is ...
It is neither a copy of a classic face nor an original creation , but rather something between the two , with its basic de- sign stemming from classic Garamond sources . An exceedingly compact and useful old style , Granjon is ...
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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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