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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... edition of over 25,000 copies . In the fifteenth century , the average edition was about 300 copies . Till the middle of the eighteenth , an edition rarely exceeded 600 ; but there were notable exceptions . There were 34 editions of the ...
... edition of over 25,000 copies . In the fifteenth century , the average edition was about 300 copies . Till the middle of the eighteenth , an edition rarely exceeded 600 ; but there were notable exceptions . There were 34 editions of the ...
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... Edition , as at present printed , has none of the evocative charm of the original edition . It may be that the Sundour binding seems prosaic . But Shaw , disgusted by the fading of his green covers , was converted to Sundour by a ...
... Edition , as at present printed , has none of the evocative charm of the original edition . It may be that the Sundour binding seems prosaic . But Shaw , disgusted by the fading of his green covers , was converted to Sundour by a ...
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... edition , the Limited Collected edition , the Stand- ard edition , form the bulk of Shaw's printed works ; his printed ephemera are not my concern here . There are , however , various editions of what we might call out - of - the - run ...
... edition , the Limited Collected edition , the Stand- ard edition , form the bulk of Shaw's printed works ; his printed ephemera are not my concern here . There are , however , various editions of what we might call out - of - the - run ...
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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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