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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... century a new scientific amenity for which there was a pre - existing and insistent demand is evident from the mounting number of nautical almanacks published between Gutenberg's first productions and the project of Colum- bus . Soon ...
... century a new scientific amenity for which there was a pre - existing and insistent demand is evident from the mounting number of nautical almanacks published between Gutenberg's first productions and the project of Colum- bus . Soon ...
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... century two rival fashions of decora- tion were developed which finally banished the woodcut border , first the method of decoration by type ornaments or printers ' flowers , and secondly the engraved title page . There is one ex- ample ...
... century two rival fashions of decora- tion were developed which finally banished the woodcut border , first the method of decoration by type ornaments or printers ' flowers , and secondly the engraved title page . There is one ex- ample ...
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... century , are in general the best , being simpler and not yet over- burdened with a mass of detail . The good taste of the eighteenth century brought about a reform . But at Paris most books of this period had a typographic title page ...
... century , are in general the best , being simpler and not yet over- burdened with a mass of detail . The good taste of the eighteenth century brought about a reform . But at Paris most books of this period had a typographic title page ...
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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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