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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... decorative borders were cut , many of them by artists of the first rank , in- cluding even Dürer and Holbein . The ... decoration to the subject matter of the book . The sixteenth - century printer naturally found it economical to ...
... decorative borders were cut , many of them by artists of the first rank , in- cluding even Dürer and Holbein . The ... decoration to the subject matter of the book . The sixteenth - century printer naturally found it economical to ...
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... decorative cap- itals which were so successfully used at Paris . At the end of the century we have the work of the ... decoration . Like Baskerville , these printers considered that type is itself sufficiently interesting to stand ...
... decorative cap- itals which were so successfully used at Paris . At the end of the century we have the work of the ... decoration . Like Baskerville , these printers considered that type is itself sufficiently interesting to stand ...
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... decorative elements cannot always fall on the same level . This irregularity can be compensated for in a measure by adjusting the size of the decoration to the area of the space it occupies . By what may seem to be a negation of the law ...
... decorative elements cannot always fall on the same level . This irregularity can be compensated for in a measure by adjusting the size of the decoration to the area of the space it occupies . By what may seem to be a negation of the law ...
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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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