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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... advertising , Direct Mail is your paradise . It is here that you approach the august precincts of the designer of books ; here you can deal in the fascinating questions of paper , ink , presswork , and all those minute and thrilling ...
... advertising , Direct Mail is your paradise . It is here that you approach the august precincts of the designer of books ; here you can deal in the fascinating questions of paper , ink , presswork , and all those minute and thrilling ...
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... ADVERTISING CARD ( always a left - hand page ) If an Advertising Card or other similar announcement is re- quired , it should be typographically a part of the book , no mat- From the Manual of Linotype Typography , Copyright 1923 by ...
... ADVERTISING CARD ( always a left - hand page ) If an Advertising Card or other similar announcement is re- quired , it should be typographically a part of the book , no mat- From the Manual of Linotype Typography , Copyright 1923 by ...
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... advertising typography may be . If a customer has a special or unique form of advertising , and insists on its use , the printer should inform him that it conflicts with the harmony of the book to do so . THE TITLE PAGE ( always a right ...
... advertising typography may be . If a customer has a special or unique form of advertising , and insists on its use , the printer should inform him that it conflicts with the harmony of the book to do so . THE TITLE PAGE ( always a right ...
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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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