Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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Most certainly the word does not properly mean merely a publisher's device wherever used , as stated in a [ recent ) anonymous illustrated article . ” No one has heeded him , however , and my own like - minded objections were met with ...
Most certainly the word does not properly mean merely a publisher's device wherever used , as stated in a [ recent ) anonymous illustrated article . ” No one has heeded him , however , and my own like - minded objections were met with ...
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In the beginning the device was put at the end of the book , above or below the colophon . It was at first a small and simple design ... but the eagerness to have a device that should be striking led to its enlargement and afterward to ...
In the beginning the device was put at the end of the book , above or below the colophon . It was at first a small and simple design ... but the eagerness to have a device that should be striking led to its enlargement and afterward to ...
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Next came the printer's device , and at the foot of the page , his name and address . These large sizes of upper and lower - case , an inheritance from printers who were accustomed to black letter ( which cannot be set in solid capitals ) ...
Next came the printer's device , and at the foot of the page , his name and address . These large sizes of upper and lower - case , an inheritance from printers who were accustomed to black letter ( which cannot be set in solid capitals ) ...
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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Page | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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advertising alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common copy decoration device early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | World Publishing Company, 1951 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 9 Oct 2008 |
| N.º de páginas | 417 páginas |
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