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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... Monotype Corporation , and all this with a mul- titude of printers who were set to work and produced but one result - pure Meynell . There is also the more recent example of Mr. Jan Tschichold at work in the Penguin pool . This ...
... Monotype Corporation , and all this with a mul- titude of printers who were set to work and produced but one result - pure Meynell . There is also the more recent example of Mr. Jan Tschichold at work in the Penguin pool . This ...
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... Monotype Caslon . Both were submitted to Shaw without saying which was which . The suspected Mono- type " justification " was preferred . Maxwell triumphed . Emery Walker , consulted by letter , also approved the machine - set page ...
... Monotype Caslon . Both were submitted to Shaw without saying which was which . The suspected Mono- type " justification " was preferred . Maxwell triumphed . Emery Walker , consulted by letter , also approved the machine - set page ...
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... Monotype faces ; while that of Baskerville for John Winterich's essay on Franklin as printer and publisher was because Baskerville was a type Franklin greatly ad- mired . Caledonia , an original Dwiggins face influenced by Scotch Roman ...
... Monotype faces ; while that of Baskerville for John Winterich's essay on Franklin as printer and publisher was because Baskerville was a type Franklin greatly ad- mired . Caledonia , an original Dwiggins face influenced by Scotch Roman ...
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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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