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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... Calligraphy can almost be considered a fine art nowadays , because its primary economic and educational purpose has been taken away ; but printing in English will not qualify as an art until the present English language no longer ...
... Calligraphy can almost be considered a fine art nowadays , because its primary economic and educational purpose has been taken away ; but printing in English will not qualify as an art until the present English language no longer ...
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... calligraphy . Every creative period in printing history has produced its own new types . The present period can make no im- portant contribution without doing the same . WILL RANSOM WHAT IS A PRIVATE PRESS Eldorado WHENEVER private ...
... calligraphy . Every creative period in printing history has produced its own new types . The present period can make no im- portant contribution without doing the same . WILL RANSOM WHAT IS A PRIVATE PRESS Eldorado WHENEVER private ...
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... calligraphic and the built - up approach to the execution of a book title may indicate how each may be employed frankly ... calligraphy has even the smallest influence , the author will bear with pleasure the rightful criticism of ...
... calligraphic and the built - up approach to the execution of a book title may indicate how each may be employed frankly ... calligraphy has even the smallest influence , the author will bear with pleasure the rightful criticism of ...
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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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