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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... reason which made him put his mark on a book - the simple reason that he was proud of his craftsmanship and wished it to be recognized as his . By signing it with his shields Peter Schöffer has brought the book to a happy completion ...
... reason which made him put his mark on a book - the simple reason that he was proud of his craftsmanship and wished it to be recognized as his . By signing it with his shields Peter Schöffer has brought the book to a happy completion ...
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... reason from them . In the flurry of your individual problems , I think you will not mind spending half an hour on one broad and simple set of ideas involving abstract principles . I once was talking to a man who designed a very pleasing ...
... reason from them . In the flurry of your individual problems , I think you will not mind spending half an hour on one broad and simple set of ideas involving abstract principles . I once was talking to a man who designed a very pleasing ...
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... reason to suppose that there is not today as much latent talent for the arts in existence , as at any time in their ... reason . It is not the business of type and printing to show off , and when , as it now so frequently does , it ...
... reason to suppose that there is not today as much latent talent for the arts in existence , as at any time in their ... reason . It is not the business of type and printing to show off , and when , as it now so frequently does , it ...
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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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