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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... contemporary is new only in degree , " he declares , " it has existed to some extent in all previous periods that believed themselves to be progressive . " The Renaissance had a contempt for the Gothic centuries that had preceded it ...
... contemporary is new only in degree , " he declares , " it has existed to some extent in all previous periods that believed themselves to be progressive . " The Renaissance had a contempt for the Gothic centuries that had preceded it ...
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... contemporary American household . Within the framework of Greco - Latin society , the written word became available to the more prosperous citizens on a scale unprecedented in the civilisations which had preceded them ; but there were ...
... contemporary American household . Within the framework of Greco - Latin society , the written word became available to the more prosperous citizens on a scale unprecedented in the civilisations which had preceded them ; but there were ...
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... contemporary western civilisation . We shall now try to get into focus the consequences of something quite new in the history of our species , the emer- gence of a social personnel with a vested interest in the enlighten- ment of ...
... contemporary western civilisation . We shall now try to get into focus the consequences of something quite new in the history of our species , the emer- gence of a social personnel with a vested interest in the enlighten- ment of ...
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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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