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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... writing passed through the stages of development traceable in so many countries : 1. The pictures or characters suggesting the thing or incident ( picture writing ) . 2. The pictures or characters symbolizing the thing or idea ...
... writing passed through the stages of development traceable in so many countries : 1. The pictures or characters suggesting the thing or incident ( picture writing ) . 2. The pictures or characters symbolizing the thing or idea ...
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... writing . At first , there were few people who had any use for the art of writing except as a convenience of commercial intercourse . There was in fact no incentive to adapt the art of writing with letters to the flexible uses of daily ...
... writing . At first , there were few people who had any use for the art of writing except as a convenience of commercial intercourse . There was in fact no incentive to adapt the art of writing with letters to the flexible uses of daily ...
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... writing to all the familiar uses of speech . For the Latin which generations of schoolboys reluctantly construed in the grammar schools , Latin in the Gladstone tradi- tion , was actually dead when committed to writing , a language as ...
... writing to all the familiar uses of speech . For the Latin which generations of schoolboys reluctantly construed in the grammar schools , Latin in the Gladstone tradi- tion , was actually dead when committed to writing , a language as ...
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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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