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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... Nonesuch Press ( whose achieve- ments I should admire much more joyously if it had not been called a " press " ) have shown what a diversity of interesting work can be obtained from commercial printers by a man who has good taste and ...
... Nonesuch Press ( whose achieve- ments I should admire much more joyously if it had not been called a " press " ) have shown what a diversity of interesting work can be obtained from commercial printers by a man who has good taste and ...
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... Press . I think the Pelican was a pioneer in the policy of having very few types but all of them of good design . We ... Nonesuch Press . The next step was to bind David Garnett and Vera Mendel to the adventure . David Garnett's family ...
... Press . I think the Pelican was a pioneer in the policy of having very few types but all of them of good design . We ... Nonesuch Press . The next step was to bind David Garnett and Vera Mendel to the adventure . David Garnett's family ...
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... Nonesuch Press came into being . So there we were , in 1923 , in our cellar under Birrell & Garnett's bookshop , book - enthusiasts , amateurs in the literal , though not , I hope , the derogatory sense of the word , tackling the donkey ...
... Nonesuch Press came into being . So there we were , in 1923 , in our cellar under Birrell & Garnett's bookshop , book - enthusiasts , amateurs in the literal , though not , I hope , the derogatory sense of the word , tackling the donkey ...
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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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