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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Let a book be , for a generaа tion , of such good report that it may be said to have become a classic , and a large - paper edition is justified . Let those who must cavil do so . If they cannot rise above the utilitarian ideal ...
Let a book be , for a generaа tion , of such good report that it may be said to have become a classic , and a large - paper edition is justified . Let those who must cavil do so . If they cannot rise above the utilitarian ideal ...
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There was the silver teapot which I never carried to be replenished without remembering my father's solemn sanctifica tion of it : “ Robert Browning has taken his tea from this . ” There was W. B. Yeats standing owl - like at the door ...
There was the silver teapot which I never carried to be replenished without remembering my father's solemn sanctifica tion of it : “ Robert Browning has taken his tea from this . ” There was W. B. Yeats standing owl - like at the door ...
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For a retirement occupaа tion we can commend a private press . It keeps up the interest in life . Offers of work flow in , much more than we care to accept . We are not in business and we have more projects of our own than we shall ever ...
For a retirement occupaа tion we can commend a private press . It keeps up the interest in life . Offers of work flow in , much more than we care to accept . We are not in business and we have more projects of our own than we shall ever ...
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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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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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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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