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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She always enjoyed smoking a good cigar while writing or carrying on her sparkling conversations , as she thought it made her thoughts flow more easily . One could not write of women in connection with books with- out speaking of two ...
She always enjoyed smoking a good cigar while writing or carrying on her sparkling conversations , as she thought it made her thoughts flow more easily . One could not write of women in connection with books with- out speaking of two ...
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There is only one other thing in the world that is capable of stirring and altering men's minds to the same extent , and that is the coherent expression of thought . That is man's chief miracle , unique to man .
There is only one other thing in the world that is capable of stirring and altering men's minds to the same extent , and that is the coherent expression of thought . That is man's chief miracle , unique to man .
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Style is the living expression controlling both the form and the vital structure of the vehicle which presents thought in tan- gible form — an intimate and inseparable something in the work of a craftsman wholly unconscious of style or ...
Style is the living expression controlling both the form and the vital structure of the vehicle which presents thought in tan- gible form — an intimate and inseparable something in the work of a craftsman wholly unconscious of style or ...
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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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