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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... Cockerel Press , June 1943- December 1948. ( An address to the Art Society , University of the South West of England in Exeter , June , 1947. ) Copyright 1950 by the Golden Cockerel Press . Reprinted by permission of author and ...
... Cockerel Press , June 1943- December 1948. ( An address to the Art Society , University of the South West of England in Exeter , June , 1947. ) Copyright 1950 by the Golden Cockerel Press . Reprinted by permission of author and ...
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... Cockerel - all of them have their worries and their toil , but their work for me is done with love . This is a question you might ask yourselves : can a beautiful thing be made cynically ? The dice is loaded against the unwanted child ...
... Cockerel - all of them have their worries and their toil , but their work for me is done with love . This is a question you might ask yourselves : can a beautiful thing be made cynically ? The dice is loaded against the unwanted child ...
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... Cockerel , engraving as an artistic medium is flowering as never before . By the enthusiasm and love which these artists bring to their work , they advance their techniques year by year , always improving on their own previous best , or ...
... Cockerel , engraving as an artistic medium is flowering as never before . By the enthusiasm and love which these artists bring to their work , they advance their techniques year by year , always improving on their own previous best , or ...
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LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
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