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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... paper should be flexible , without the flimsiness characteristic of papers weak in substance . It should bend readily when the leaves are turned and should flow smoothly through the hand when all the leaves are bent at once . Stiffness ...
... paper should be flexible , without the flimsiness characteristic of papers weak in substance . It should bend readily when the leaves are turned and should flow smoothly through the hand when all the leaves are bent at once . Stiffness ...
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... paper only , laid or wove , and , it may be further insisted , to only the best hand - made paper . Desirable as wove paper is for certain purposes , it cannot be denied that it has less character than the laid sheet . It is also true ...
... paper only , laid or wove , and , it may be further insisted , to only the best hand - made paper . Desirable as wove paper is for certain purposes , it cannot be denied that it has less character than the laid sheet . It is also true ...
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... paper mill himself , that a satisfactory sheet was made for him . With the closing of the Kelmscott Press after Morris's death , T. J. Cobden - Sanderson and Emery Walker used his specifications for this paper at their Doves Press ...
... paper mill himself , that a satisfactory sheet was made for him . With the closing of the Kelmscott Press after Morris's death , T. J. Cobden - Sanderson and Emery Walker used his specifications for this paper at their Doves Press ...
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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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