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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... Stanley Morison had made avail- able through the 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 ...
... Stanley Morison had made avail- able through the 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 ...
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... Stanley Morison FIRST PRINCIPLES OF TYPOGRAPHY LETTERS of the alphabet that are cast or founded for the purpose of impressing upon paper are known as " types " and the impression thus made ... STANLEY MORISON First Principles of Typography.
... Stanley Morison FIRST PRINCIPLES OF TYPOGRAPHY LETTERS of the alphabet that are cast or founded for the purpose of impressing upon paper are known as " types " and the impression thus made ... STANLEY MORISON First Principles of Typography.
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... Stanley Morison , speaking in Edinburgh in 1944 on the subject of The Typographic Arts , pointed out that the first his- tory of typography ever written for the instruction of the trade was James Watson's The Art of Printing , published ...
... Stanley Morison , speaking in Edinburgh in 1944 on the subject of The Typographic Arts , pointed out that the first his- tory of typography ever written for the instruction of the trade was James Watson's The Art of Printing , published ...
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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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