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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This may be secured by the use of the large initial letter ; the printing of the first word in CAPITALS , or SMALL CAPITALS ; CAPITALS and Small CAPITALS ; or by setting the first word into the margin . On no account should the opening ...
This may be secured by the use of the large initial letter ; the printing of the first word in CAPITALS , or SMALL CAPITALS ; CAPITALS and Small CAPITALS ; or by setting the first word into the margin . On no account should the opening ...
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If set in upper and lower - case , the headline loses in levelness , so that it seems well to employ SMALL CAPITALS ; these are best separated by hair spaces , since the unrelieved rectangular structure and perpendicularity of capitals ...
If set in upper and lower - case , the headline loses in levelness , so that it seems well to employ SMALL CAPITALS ; these are best separated by hair spaces , since the unrelieved rectangular structure and perpendicularity of capitals ...
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It is customary to make Roman Capitals upABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnop qrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopg stuvwxỳz VWX right . It is customary to make Lower - case smaller than Capitals when the two are used together ; and it ...
It is customary to make Roman Capitals upABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnop qrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopg stuvwxỳz VWX right . It is customary to make Lower - case smaller than Capitals when the two are used together ; and it ...
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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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