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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... casting the letters to be used in the great Bible . In April 1772 he employed a newly arrived Swiss silk weaver ... cast a number of fonts , cutting all the punches , and making all the apparatus pertaining thereto , himself , for ...
... casting the letters to be used in the great Bible . In April 1772 he employed a newly arrived Swiss silk weaver ... cast a number of fonts , cutting all the punches , and making all the apparatus pertaining thereto , himself , for ...
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... cast thirteen years be- fore Baine's first operations , and with assurances by McCulloch that Fox cut and cast the letters used in the McKean edition of the Acts of the Pennsylvania Assembly , printed by Francis Bailey in 1782,10 and ...
... cast thirteen years be- fore Baine's first operations , and with assurances by McCulloch that Fox cut and cast the letters used in the McKean edition of the Acts of the Pennsylvania Assembly , printed by Francis Bailey in 1782,10 and ...
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... cast it for us . We used it for Dr. North's Hymns . Then along came a book my wife wanted to do . Two hundred and eighty - eight pages of 14 pt . A.T.F. Garamond all standing in galleys made a lot of type for us to store . We used it ...
... cast it for us . We used it for Dr. North's Hymns . Then along came a book my wife wanted to do . Two hundred and eighty - eight pages of 14 pt . A.T.F. Garamond all standing in galleys made a lot of type for us to store . We used it ...
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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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