Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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The proofs you gloat over at night will become commonplace by dawn . ... " You will make misjudgments about the intelligence of ordinary readers . You will make mistakes of taste . You will find it too easy to get an effect by means of ...
The proofs you gloat over at night will become commonplace by dawn . ... " You will make misjudgments about the intelligence of ordinary readers . You will make mistakes of taste . You will find it too easy to get an effect by means of ...
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As we become more and more able to print finer and more elaborate and delicate types of letter it becomes more and more intellectually imperative to standardize all forms and obliterate all elaborations and fancifulness .
As we become more and more able to print finer and more elaborate and delicate types of letter it becomes more and more intellectually imperative to standardize all forms and obliterate all elaborations and fancifulness .
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To go back to nature and become an amateur printer in such an industrialized book world is like working in the garden when you are bored with salad . You really get back to the roots of words . If you are a genuine amateur printer ...
To go back to nature and become an amateur printer in such an industrialized book world is like working in the garden when you are bored with salad . You really get back to the roots of words . If you are a genuine amateur printer ...
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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Page | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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advertising alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common copy decoration device early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | World Publishing Company, 1951 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 9 Oct 2008 |
| N.º de páginas | 417 páginas |
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