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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 38
Página 241
... roman types is not . National tradition expresses itself in the varying separation of the book into prelims , chapters , etc. , no less than in the design of the type . But at least there are physical rules of linear composition which ...
... roman types is not . National tradition expresses itself in the varying separation of the book into prelims , chapters , etc. , no less than in the design of the type . But at least there are physical rules of linear composition which ...
Página 276
... roman . Their preference for roman is a con- fession that roman types are better , and that the printers of the seventeenth century did wisely in their general abandonment of pointed letters . The reading world had outgrown them . Why ...
... roman . Their preference for roman is a con- fession that roman types are better , and that the printers of the seventeenth century did wisely in their general abandonment of pointed letters . The reading world had outgrown them . Why ...
Página 405
... Roman types and differ in minor details and " national " characteristics . Among the old style faces used in this book are Bembo and Centaur , which re- flect the Italian form ; Estienne , Granjon and Garamond , which reflect the French ...
... Roman types and differ in minor details and " national " characteristics . Among the old style faces used in this book are Bembo and Centaur , which re- flect the Italian form ; Estienne , Granjon and Garamond , which reflect the French ...
Índice
OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
RUTH S GRANNISS Colophons | 31 |
Página de créditos | |
Otras 28 secciones no se muestran.
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ& abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Abel Buell advertising alphabet amateur artist Baskerville beauty Bible Bodoni Bruce Rogers called calligraphy capitals Caslon cast century character Cockerel colophon COMPOSED contemporary copy Copyright craft craftsmen David Garnett decoration device early England English engraved Eric Gill essays folio fonts foundry Franklin friends Golden Cockerel graphic arts Greek Grolier Club hand illustrations important imprint interest invention italic Kelmscott legibility letter limited editions Linotype look lower-case machine manuscript mark matter means modern Monotype movable type never Nonesuch Nonesuch Press old style original paper printed books printer private press produced publisher reader Reprinted by permission Roman roman type seems serifs Shaw Shaw's space specimen standards Stanley Morison taste things tion trade type design type faces typography volume W. A. Dwiggins William Morris word writing