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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... Linotype Company I am indebted for reprinting the text of the " Anatomy , " now slightly revised , from The Manual of Linotype Typography . To both authors and their publisher , William E. Rudge's Sons , I am indebted for including ...
... Linotype Company I am indebted for reprinting the text of the " Anatomy , " now slightly revised , from The Manual of Linotype Typography . To both authors and their publisher , William E. Rudge's Sons , I am indebted for including ...
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... linotype , " gave a revolutionary impetus to the printing industry as with all new inventions of importance it was expected that thousands of compositors would be thrown out of work . But , again as usual , the industry grew so fast ...
... linotype , " gave a revolutionary impetus to the printing industry as with all new inventions of importance it was expected that thousands of compositors would be thrown out of work . But , again as usual , the industry grew so fast ...
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... Linotype Typography , Copyright 1923 by Mergenthaler Linotype Company , Brooklyn , N. Y. Reprinted by permission of the publishers . Corrected and amended by the Editor . ter what the client's style in his advertising typography may • 160 .
... Linotype Typography , Copyright 1923 by Mergenthaler Linotype Company , Brooklyn , N. Y. Reprinted by permission of the publishers . Corrected and amended by the Editor . ter what the client's style in his advertising typography may • 160 .
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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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