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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... foundry of Binny & Ronaldson of Philadelphia.11 The identification of the various fonts of locally made type used in Pennsylvania in the quarter century following " The first Work with Amer . Types " would form an interesting chapter in ...
... foundry of Binny & Ronaldson of Philadelphia.11 The identification of the various fonts of locally made type used in Pennsylvania in the quarter century following " The first Work with Amer . Types " would form an interesting chapter in ...
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... foundry for many years- Morris Fuller Benton , was the son of the man whose machines were responsible for this revolution in type design . For it was the two basic machines invented and developed by Linn Boyd Benton which made it ...
... foundry for many years- Morris Fuller Benton , was the son of the man whose machines were responsible for this revolution in type design . For it was the two basic machines invented and developed by Linn Boyd Benton which made it ...
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... foundry . Procuring machines for a type foundry was comparatively simple ; the operation of them , making patterns for use in the engraving machines , the lining and fitting of the cast types , etc. , all after I had reached my sixtieth ...
... foundry . Procuring machines for a type foundry was comparatively simple ; the operation of them , making patterns for use in the engraving machines , the lining and fitting of the cast types , etc. , all after I had reached my sixtieth ...
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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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