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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... common until 1580 or thereabouts . The full stop was commonly used before as well as after roman , and sometimes also arabic , numerals until about 1580 . Thus " .xii . " It was also used before and after i ( .i . = id est ) and f ( .f ...
... common until 1580 or thereabouts . The full stop was commonly used before as well as after roman , and sometimes also arabic , numerals until about 1580 . Thus " .xii . " It was also used before and after i ( .i . = id est ) and f ( .f ...
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... common stock . Every new idea , every new invention brings along with its expected benefits unforeseen evils . Modernistic architecture is at present ex- citing because new and unusual ; when more common it will become commonplace ...
... common stock . Every new idea , every new invention brings along with its expected benefits unforeseen evils . Modernistic architecture is at present ex- citing because new and unusual ; when more common it will become commonplace ...
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... Common Water , all of which Keimer imprints of 1723 are listed in the short - title check list which follows the Curtis catalogue . No more specifically is it possible to identify the " little job " which Andrew Bradford gave him . It ...
... Common Water , all of which Keimer imprints of 1723 are listed in the short - title check list which follows the Curtis catalogue . No more specifically is it possible to identify the " little job " which Andrew Bradford gave him . 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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