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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... Calligraphers and included in Mss . by WAD ; Evelyn Harter's Printers As Men of the World ; and Lawrence C. Wroth's " First Work With ... Calligraphy , " with its illustrations . v M729001 To Edwin Grabhorn I am indebted for including " The.
... Calligraphers and included in Mss . by WAD ; Evelyn Harter's Printers As Men of the World ; and Lawrence C. Wroth's " First Work With ... Calligraphy , " with its illustrations . v M729001 To Edwin Grabhorn I am indebted for including " The.
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... CALLIGRAPHERS 1919 · NOTE : The accompanying extracts from the Transactions of the Society of Calligraphers are published with the approval of the Society . They form a part of the exhaustive and unbiased Report returned by the ...
... CALLIGRAPHERS 1919 · NOTE : The accompanying extracts from the Transactions of the Society of Calligraphers are published with the approval of the Society . They form a part of the exhaustive and unbiased Report returned by the ...
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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 and ... 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 and ... 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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