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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... things or of using machinery and the factory to turn out , more quickly and cheaply , things whose proper nature is derived from human labor . Thus we have imitation " period " furniture in War- dour Street , and we have imitation ...
... things or of using machinery and the factory to turn out , more quickly and cheaply , things whose proper nature is derived from human labor . Thus we have imitation " period " furniture in War- dour Street , and we have imitation ...
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... things like timetables , or grati- fying things like corporation reports for the year , or beautiful things like four - color reproductions of Varga girls . To make these things well is a kind of fun ; and insofar as the fun comes from ...
... things like timetables , or grati- fying things like corporation reports for the year , or beautiful things like four - color reproductions of Varga girls . To make these things well is a kind of fun ; and insofar as the fun comes from ...
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... things about as well as these things have ever been made . But as to the general volume of printing , no one has asked me , to be sure , what I thought was the lowest point of artistic taste in the five hundred years of its existence ...
... things about as well as these things have ever been made . But as to the general volume of printing , no one has asked me , to be sure , what I thought was the lowest point of artistic taste in the five hundred years of its existence ...
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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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