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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for making a fine book , for , after all , rules are of no use whatever ( in an art or in a craft ) except to be broken - wisely . Neither has any attempt been made , since this is not a technical treatise , to outline the methods by ...
for making a fine book , for , after all , rules are of no use whatever ( in an art or in a craft ) except to be broken - wisely . Neither has any attempt been made , since this is not a technical treatise , to outline the methods by ...
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I take a different view to - day , not only of miniature types , but of rules and spacings generally . Morris granted the necessity of legibility . In this he differed from another poet and amateur of printing , Robert Bridges ...
I take a different view to - day , not only of miniature types , but of rules and spacings generally . Morris granted the necessity of legibility . In this he differed from another poet and amateur of printing , Robert Bridges ...
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Nevertheless , as it is well for printers and publishers to have rules , and the same rules , it may be suggested that the headings to Preface , Table of Contents , Intro- duction , etc. , should be in the same size and fount as the ...
Nevertheless , as it is well for printers and publishers to have rules , and the same rules , it may be suggested that the headings to Preface , Table of Contents , Intro- duction , etc. , should be in the same size and fount as the ...
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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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