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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This duty is to teach the professional , by example , about the outer cultural world , and to experiment for him in matters of printing style . Now this is directly contrary to what ninety out of one hundred current amateurs would seem ...
This duty is to teach the professional , by example , about the outer cultural world , and to experiment for him in matters of printing style . Now this is directly contrary to what ninety out of one hundred current amateurs would seem ...
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The two most common classes of type faces are " 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 ...
The two most common classes of type faces are " 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 ...
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“ A nd " serif's serifs loop How the variations that produce the different 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 Caslon ( 8 ) ...
“ A nd " serif's serifs loop How the variations that produce the different 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 Caslon ( 8 ) ...
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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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