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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... style at all , or else they fall too easily into the habit of working in the Colonial style , or Venetian style , or some other historical style , rather than in a contemporary one . Maybe they do so for psychological reasons . And ...
... style at all , or else they fall too easily into the habit of working in the Colonial style , or Venetian style , or some other historical style , rather than in a contemporary one . Maybe they do so for psychological reasons . And ...
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... style " and " modern . " The " transitional , " a merging of the old style form into the modern - is typified by the illustration of Bulmer , between the Janson and Bodoni specimens used for the visual presentation on page 404 . Our old ...
... style " and " modern . " The " transitional , " a merging of the old style form into the modern - is typified by the illustration of Bulmer , between the Janson and Bodoni specimens used for the visual presentation on page 404 . Our old ...
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... styles of Roman types actually came about is easily understood by seeing how the nib of the pen is slanted to write an old style letter like Časlon ( g ) , as against holding it at right angles to the written line for the modern letter ...
... styles of Roman types actually came about is easily understood by seeing how the nib of the pen is slanted to write an old style letter like Časlon ( g ) , as against holding it at right angles to the written line for the modern letter ...
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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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