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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Fox remained in Sower's establishment , presumably engaged in casting the large quantity of type required to keep standing an edition of the Bible . In addition to this routine work he is said to have cut and cast an unspecified amount ...
Fox remained in Sower's establishment , presumably engaged in casting the large quantity of type required to keep standing an edition of the Bible . In addition to this routine work he is said to have cut and cast an unspecified amount ...
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McCulloch was emphatic in his praise of the sturdiness of Fox's types , but when he remarked to Archibald Binny upon the excellent wearing quality of a set of figures and capitals cast by the Germantown founder , which he and his father ...
McCulloch was emphatic in his praise of the sturdiness of Fox's types , but when he remarked to Archibald Binny upon the excellent wearing quality of a set of figures and capitals cast by the Germantown founder , which he and his father ...
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Long before the Monotype cut the Deepdene face , Fred 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 ...
Long before the Monotype cut the Deepdene face , Fred 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 ...
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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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| 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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