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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... face that the printer needed only to " observe that its shape be perfectly true , and that it lines or ranges with accuracy , and that by noting certain mathematical rules the letter cutter may produce roman char- acters of such harmony ...
... face that the printer needed only to " observe that its shape be perfectly true , and that it lines or ranges with accuracy , and that by noting certain mathematical rules the letter cutter may produce roman char- acters of such harmony ...
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... face as a garment with which the designer dresses the author's words . In this instance the designer selects a type face to develop an " allusive " format - to reflect something of the style of the period of the manuscript . Bruce ...
... face as a garment with which the designer dresses the author's words . In this instance the designer selects a type face to develop an " allusive " format - to reflect something of the style of the period of the manuscript . Bruce ...
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... faces . To that end , a complete alphabet show- ing in caps and lower - case of each face is included , with a brief account of its background and development . Not every essay will be equally appealing , typographically . Yet the ...
... faces . To that end , a complete alphabet show- ing in caps and lower - case of each face is included , with a brief account of its background and development . Not every essay will be equally appealing , typographically . Yet the ...
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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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