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 55
... pieces . The fact that they are less familiar to us may be accounted for by two circumstances . In the first place the ... piece on the title page of a Xenophon and CORONTII FINEI DELPHINATIS , RE- GII MATHEMATICARV.M PROFESSORIS ...
... pieces . The fact that they are less familiar to us may be accounted for by two circumstances . In the first place the ... piece on the title page of a Xenophon and CORONTII FINEI DELPHINATIS , RE- GII MATHEMATICARV.M PROFESSORIS ...
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... piece- by - piece description . " In the modern book , in particular , we tend to treat the volume as a whole and to submerge the importance of the single page in it . The bastard title , for instance , might be left entirely blank ...
... piece- by - piece description . " In the modern book , in particular , we tend to treat the volume as a whole and to submerge the importance of the single page in it . The bastard title , for instance , might be left entirely blank ...
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... piece work at the Book & Job Print , but later he entered another world , worked on the evening newspaper of the town and tasted the excitement of a race against bogie , the average day's work of ten thousand ems , the printer's measure ...
... piece work at the Book & Job Print , but later he entered another world , worked on the evening newspaper of the town and tasted the excitement of a race against bogie , the average day's work of ten thousand ems , the printer's measure ...
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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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