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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French printing as a whole in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries is full of printer - publisher problems for our questing minds . Simon le Vostre , the great ecclesiastical publisher of his age , used Pigouchet mostly for ...
French printing as a whole in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries is full of printer - publisher problems for our questing minds . Simon le Vostre , the great ecclesiastical publisher of his age , used Pigouchet mostly for ...
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... to attempt its solution by the simple arrangement of the whole Book , as a whole , with due regard to its parts and to the emphasis of its capital divisions rather than by the addition & splendour of applied ornament .
... to attempt its solution by the simple arrangement of the whole Book , as a whole , with due regard to its parts and to the emphasis of its capital divisions rather than by the addition & splendour of applied ornament .
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Perhaps “ This book was planned by ” is the least inaccurate formula , though this again leaves out the whole business of overseeing . Overseeing is no purely typographical matter . It means the planning and coordinating of the whole ...
Perhaps “ This book was planned by ” is the least inaccurate formula , though this again leaves out the whole business of overseeing . Overseeing is no purely typographical matter . It means the planning and coordinating of the whole ...
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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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