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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There is one example of type ornament known even in the fifteenth century , in an Aesop printed at Parma in 1483. ... But it is not until about 1560 that we find borders built up of type ornaments worked into arabesque patterns .
There is one example of type ornament known even in the fifteenth century , in an Aesop printed at Parma in 1483. ... But it is not until about 1560 that we find borders built up of type ornaments worked into arabesque patterns .
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B R ADVENTURER WITH TYPE ORNAMENT Paul A. Bennett anyone To who has set or handled type , the achievements of Bruce Rogers in combining ... Only a detailed examination of a particular B.R. design with type ornaments will reveal .
B R ADVENTURER WITH TYPE ORNAMENT Paul A. Bennett anyone To who has set or handled type , the achievements of Bruce Rogers in combining ... Only a detailed examination of a particular B.R. design with type ornaments will reveal .
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interested in doing designs with type ornaments is worth considering His experiments date back to Riverside Press days , though in that period no attempts were made to use type ornament except by conventional combinations into borders ...
interested in doing designs with type ornaments is worth considering His experiments date back to Riverside Press days , though in that period no attempts were made to use type ornament except by conventional combinations into borders ...
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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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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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