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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... printer and publisher . The author's struggle with the printer , to obtain his own way , is no new thing , as proved by this late colophon of the musician , Johann von Cleve , affixed to his Cantiones , 1580 : As I come to the end of my ...
... printer and publisher . The author's struggle with the printer , to obtain his own way , is no new thing , as proved by this late colophon of the musician , Johann von Cleve , affixed to his Cantiones , 1580 : As I come to the end of my ...
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... printers who were first and last businessmen . Johann Fust was a banker until he put money in Gutenberg's project . The first English printer , Caxton , was a retired wool merchant who liked to translate French romances for his friends ...
... printers who were first and last businessmen . Johann Fust was a banker until he put money in Gutenberg's project . The first English printer , Caxton , was a retired wool merchant who liked to translate French romances for his friends ...
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... printer who is an artist , and the result should be a piece of fine printing . A publisher who knows what he wants employs a printer who is not an artist , and the result will depend on the degree of taste of the publisher . A ...
... printer who is an artist , and the result should be a piece of fine printing . A publisher who knows what he wants employs a printer who is not an artist , and the result will depend on the degree of taste of the publisher . A ...
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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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