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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... appeared in 1454 , which is thus the earliest date that can be set beyond any specu- lation or controversy . In that year four different issues of a papal indulgence appeared in printed form . The occasion was historic . Constantinople ...
... appeared in 1454 , which is thus the earliest date that can be set beyond any specu- lation or controversy . In that year four different issues of a papal indulgence appeared in printed form . The occasion was historic . Constantinople ...
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... appeared at the top of a title page , but it was not long before , either in the interests of decoration or of advertising , a simple woodcut or the device of the printer appeared below the title . In his A Treatise on Title - pages ...
... appeared at the top of a title page , but it was not long before , either in the interests of decoration or of advertising , a simple woodcut or the device of the printer appeared below the title . In his A Treatise on Title - pages ...
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... appearance . Even a badly composed work may give a good appearance if it is well imposed - good imposition redeeming bad composition , while a good composition would be effectively ruined by bad imposition . III THE designer of the book ...
... appearance . Even a badly composed work may give a good appearance if it is well imposed - good imposition redeeming bad composition , while a good composition would be effectively ruined by bad imposition . III THE designer of the book ...
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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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