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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... copies of the admirable manuscripts of the period . Juvenis : The black - letter of every early printer was but a servile copy of the manuscript most attainable . Malformations were copied , but the flowing graces of penmanship could ...
... copies of the admirable manuscripts of the period . Juvenis : The black - letter of every early printer was but a servile copy of the manuscript most attainable . Malformations were copied , but the flowing graces of penmanship could ...
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... copy " ; pride of authorship would not wholly down . That copy may be one of the four known to survive today , all in institutional col- lections . Receiving a better offer from John Watts , who conducted a larger printing establishment ...
... copy " ; pride of authorship would not wholly down . That copy may be one of the four known to survive today , all in institutional col- lections . Receiving a better offer from John Watts , who conducted a larger printing establishment ...
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... copy of which I know , besides the one described , is now appropriately in the Seymour Library of Knox College . Of this copy the librarian said ( when he acknowledged the gift to the Library in 1931 ) : " This little unbound pamphlet ...
... copy of which I know , besides the one described , is now appropriately in the Seymour Library of Knox College . Of this copy the librarian said ( when he acknowledged the gift to the Library in 1931 ) : " This little unbound pamphlet ...
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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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