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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... beauty will take care of itself , is true in both worlds . The beauty that Industrialism properly produces is the beauty of bones ; the beauty that radiates from the work of men is the beauty of the living face . COMPOSED IN PERPETUA ...
... beauty will take care of itself , is true in both worlds . The beauty that Industrialism properly produces is the beauty of bones ; the beauty that radiates from the work of men is the beauty of the living face . COMPOSED IN PERPETUA ...
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... beauty in types in closer combination with legibility . I feel that the proper standard of beauty in types basically resides in their utility , but there are , nevertheless , secondary esthetic attributes which may be included without ...
... beauty in types in closer combination with legibility . I feel that the proper standard of beauty in types basically resides in their utility , but there are , nevertheless , secondary esthetic attributes which may be included without ...
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... beauty . A volume of the Penny Classics may give us the sonnets of Shakespeare in their entirety ; and for that we may be duly grateful . But it cannot at the same time give us a work of visual art . In a finely printed edi- tion we ...
... beauty . A volume of the Penny Classics may give us the sonnets of Shakespeare in their entirety ; and for that we may be duly grateful . But it cannot at the same time give us a work of visual art . In a finely printed edi- tion we ...
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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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