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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J. Johnson , author of Typographia ( published in 1824 ) , wrote of a a type 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 ...
J. Johnson , author of Typographia ( published in 1824 ) , wrote of a a type 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 ...
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Home PAUL A. BENNETT get se na On Type Faces For Books It is simple enough to understand that type , paper and ink ... To the designer of books , type face selection is important in relation to the character of the text to be printed .
Home PAUL A. BENNETT get se na On Type Faces For Books It is simple enough to understand that type , paper and ink ... To the designer of books , type face selection is important in relation to the character of the text to be printed .
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To that end , a complete alphabet showing in caps and lower - case of each face is included , with a brief account of ... Yet the variety of faces used in setting them seems more successful than would be the less sensitive treatment of ...
To that end , a complete alphabet showing in caps and lower - case of each face is included , with a brief account of ... Yet the variety of faces used in setting them seems more successful than would be the less sensitive treatment of ...
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LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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