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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... American manufactures generally , lends a certain amount of weight to any observation that he might make on the subject of American type founding , although it is probable that he was ignorant of Sower's partial achievement of the art ...
... American manufactures generally , lends a certain amount of weight to any observation that he might make on the subject of American type founding , although it is probable that he was ignorant of Sower's partial achievement of the art ...
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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Janson CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS * American Type Designers and Their Work A PIECE of paper about two inches square , originally pinned to the manuscript of the ... American Type Designers and Their ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Janson CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS * American Type Designers and Their Work A PIECE of paper about two inches square , originally pinned to the manuscript of the ... American Type Designers and Their ...
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... American edition , but the first novel to be printed in America , " Price 6 s . " In the same year , 1744 , he ... American Revolution grew more and more acute . But the printer in him could not wholly be suppressed . When he went to ...
... American edition , but the first novel to be printed in America , " Price 6 s . " In the same year , 1744 , he ... American Revolution grew more and more acute . But the printer in him could not wholly be suppressed . When he went to ...
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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 |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | World Publishing Company, 1951 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 9 Oct 2008 |
| N.º de páginas | 417 páginas |
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