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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... Alphabet ? OUR transition from barbarism to civilization can be attributed to the alphabet . Those great prehistoric discoveries and inventions such as the making of a fire , the use of tools , the wheel and the axle , and even our ...
... Alphabet ? OUR transition from barbarism to civilization can be attributed to the alphabet . Those great prehistoric discoveries and inventions such as the making of a fire , the use of tools , the wheel and the axle , and even our ...
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... alphabet had but one character to represent U and V and OCTAVIA became ОСТАННА . H Two fence posts and three horizontal boards gave us our eighth letter , H. The fence was called " cheth " ( haith ) . The Greeks omitted the upper and ...
... alphabet had but one character to represent U and V and OCTAVIA became ОСТАННА . H Two fence posts and three horizontal boards gave us our eighth letter , H. The fence was called " cheth " ( haith ) . The Greeks omitted the upper and ...
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... alphabet since its frequent use by the Greeks . It came from the Roman X ( eex ) which may have been derived from the Greek " ksi . " The latter resembles the Phoenician character " samech , " meaning a post or support . The dagger ...
... alphabet since its frequent use by the Greeks . It came from the Roman X ( eex ) which may have been derived from the Greek " ksi . " The latter resembles the Phoenician character " samech , " meaning a post or support . The dagger ...
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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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