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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... trade , the herring trade and the spice trade . There are pilots who have to rely on their rutter books to navigate cargoes of the spice trade over long ocean routes . There is a mounting volume of manorial accountancy and litigation ...
... trade , the herring trade and the spice trade . There are pilots who have to rely on their rutter books to navigate cargoes of the spice trade over long ocean routes . There is a mounting volume of manorial accountancy and litigation ...
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... trade - marks became common . Craftsmen of every trade were frequently compelled either by law or by guild regulations , to affix a mark to their products as a guarantee of their honesty and good workmanship . Such marks were required ...
... trade - marks became common . Craftsmen of every trade were frequently compelled either by law or by guild regulations , to affix a mark to their products as a guarantee of their honesty and good workmanship . Such marks were required ...
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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Trade Bookmaking : COMPLAINT IN THREE DIMENSIONS THE development of trade bookmaking since 1920 has been an extraordinary phenomenon in the conservative business of publishing . At that time ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Trade Bookmaking : COMPLAINT IN THREE DIMENSIONS THE development of trade bookmaking since 1920 has been an extraordinary phenomenon in the conservative business of publishing . At that time ...
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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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