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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... William Morris.1o He saw what was happening as a result of machinery and large industry , and he did not like it ... William Morris ( 1834-1896 ) . William Morris was a man who looked back- ward in the crafts and forward in human ...
... William Morris.1o He saw what was happening as a result of machinery and large industry , and he did not like it ... William Morris ( 1834-1896 ) . William Morris was a man who looked back- ward in the crafts and forward in human ...
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... William Morris who printed the Kelmscott Chaucer , we do not always remember the William Morris who stood in Hyde Park near the Marble Arch talking to the street crowds about socialism , wondering if the police were coming ; who for ...
... William Morris who printed the Kelmscott Chaucer , we do not always remember the William Morris who stood in Hyde Park near the Marble Arch talking to the street crowds about socialism , wondering if the police were coming ; who for ...
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... William Morris who attempted to stop the downward slide of printing . He was the leader in the revival of what is known as " modern fine printing . " It has been said that Morris was inspired by a lecture of Emery Walker's on the Golden ...
... William Morris who attempted to stop the downward slide of printing . He was the leader in the revival of what is known as " modern fine printing . " It has been said that Morris was inspired by a lecture of Emery Walker's on the Golden ...
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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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