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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... engraved vignettes . However , the vogue of the Fournier designs had a shorter life , and may be said to have been killed by the classical school of printing of the end of the century . Engraving on copper was practised in the fifteenth ...
... engraved vignettes . However , the vogue of the Fournier designs had a shorter life , and may be said to have been killed by the classical school of printing of the end of the century . Engraving on copper was practised in the fifteenth ...
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... engraved title - border the fash- ion for all larger and more important publications . But it is with the seventeenth century especially that engraved borders are asso- ciated . The Elzevirs used them even on their pocket editions ...
... engraved title - border the fash- ion for all larger and more important publications . But it is with the seventeenth century especially that engraved borders are asso- ciated . The Elzevirs used them even on their pocket editions ...
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... engraved by hand , preferably in relief which comports with type both in physical character and in the means by which the image is imparted to the paper . Process- engravings are disqualified not only because of the preponder- ant ...
... engraved by hand , preferably in relief which comports with type both in physical character and in the means by which the image is imparted to the paper . Process- engravings are disqualified not only because of the preponder- ant ...
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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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