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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The Publisher and the Typographer WE live in an unhappy age . ... one of the multitudinous minutia which have come in for worried attention is the position of printers , particularly in relation to the publishers they serve .
The Publisher and the Typographer WE live in an unhappy age . ... one of the multitudinous minutia which have come in for worried attention is the position of printers , particularly in relation to the publishers they serve .
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Since the use of roman lay within the high road of French classical development - France being the only country in Europe which did not begin its printing history in gothic - this stands as the first instance of the views of a publisher ...
Since the use of roman lay within the high road of French classical development - France being the only country in Europe which did not begin its printing history in gothic - this stands as the first instance of the views of a publisher ...
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A publisher who does not know what he wants employs 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 ...
A publisher who does not know what he wants employs 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 ...
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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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| 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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