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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... perhaps we should rather say to indicate any short pause in reading .... The modern comma seems to have been introduced into England about 1521 ( in roman type ) and 1535 ( in black letter ) . It occurs in Venetian printing before 1500 ...
... perhaps we should rather say to indicate any short pause in reading .... The modern comma seems to have been introduced into England about 1521 ( in roman type ) and 1535 ( in black letter ) . It occurs in Venetian printing before 1500 ...
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... perhaps unsatisfactory hybrid between a profession and an art ; the men who have caught the sense of it most successfully have been in- telligent people who could see it whole - scholar - printer - publish- ers - for whom some other ...
... perhaps unsatisfactory hybrid between a profession and an art ; the men who have caught the sense of it most successfully have been in- telligent people who could see it whole - scholar - printer - publish- ers - for whom some other ...
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... perhaps to some degree in typography , they have taught us to get rid of clutter and useless ornamentation . But neither the one nor the other leads anywhere — except to a dead end . The conservative , however , need not think that all ...
... perhaps to some degree in typography , they have taught us to get rid of clutter and useless ornamentation . But neither the one nor the other leads anywhere — except to a dead end . The conservative , however , need not think that all ...
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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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