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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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Janson ALFRED W. POLLARD The Trained Printer and the Amateur : and The Pleasure of Small Books PRINTERS , as a class , like all other craftsmen , can only thrive by supplying their customers ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Janson ALFRED W. POLLARD The Trained Printer and the Amateur : and The Pleasure of Small Books PRINTERS , as a class , like all other craftsmen , can only thrive by supplying their customers ...
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... Janson , for the majority of the essays . And has " inter- leaved , " so to speak , many of the essays set in different types . This treatment lessens any tendency toward uneven color and spottiness , and minimizes some of the potential ...
... Janson , for the majority of the essays . And has " inter- leaved , " so to speak , many of the essays set in different types . This treatment lessens any tendency toward uneven color and spottiness , and minimizes some of the potential ...
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... Janson , a Leipsic punch - cutter and type - founder , between 1660 and 1687. Little is known of Janson to supplement his first type specimen issued in 1675. The original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of Edling ...
... Janson , a Leipsic punch - cutter and type - founder , between 1660 and 1687. Little is known of Janson to supplement his first type specimen issued in 1675. The original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of Edling ...
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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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