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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... Complete title pages bearing the date and name of the publishers are found in most books printed after 1520 , and the final para- graph , if retained at all , was gradually reduced to information as to the printer and date . From the ...
... Complete title pages bearing the date and name of the publishers are found in most books printed after 1520 , and the final para- graph , if retained at all , was gradually reduced to information as to the printer and date . From the ...
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... complete book . All less formal embodiments of the book idea have some of these parts , and their position in the whole scheme should be governed by the traditions of the book proper . In order to leave complete freedom as to number of ...
... complete book . All less formal embodiments of the book idea have some of these parts , and their position in the whole scheme should be governed by the traditions of the book proper . In order to leave complete freedom as to number of ...
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... Complete Plays , the illustrated Black Girl , the illus- trated Good King Charles's Golden Days ( there was also an illustrated edition of Geneva printed by the Chiswick Press ) and the illustrated Penguin edition of Pygmalion ...
... Complete Plays , the illustrated Black Girl , the illus- trated Good King Charles's Golden Days ( there was also an illustrated edition of Geneva printed by the Chiswick Press ) and the illustrated Penguin edition of Pygmalion ...
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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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