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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It might be argued that the bulk of printing has not now , and never has had , much relation to ideas , that in the early days its chief business was dubious theological disputes and that its chief business now is advertising soap ...
It might be argued that the bulk of printing has not now , and never has had , much relation to ideas , that in the early days its chief business was dubious theological disputes and that its chief business now is advertising soap ...
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There are those who contend that a proper relation of margins to type - page may be arrived at by employing ratios identical with those to be found in the well - proportioned pages of the early printers . Others declare that correct ...
There are those who contend that a proper relation of margins to type - page may be arrived at by employing ratios identical with those to be found in the well - proportioned pages of the early printers . Others declare that correct ...
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In the course of man's desire to examine and explain away everything , 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 .
In the course of man's desire to examine and explain away everything , 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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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 |
| 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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