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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... graphic arts worth expressing . But since it is the theory of your Committee that I have , and it may never be anybody's theory again , and they have gone so far as to give me no instructions or suggestions as to the scope or the ...
... graphic arts worth expressing . But since it is the theory of your Committee that I have , and it may never be anybody's theory again , and they have gone so far as to give me no instructions or suggestions as to the scope or the ...
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... graphic arts that may be present , rather than to those who are arrived . I am a student and still a beginner myself ... graphic arts . The confusions and distraction of this day make the path of the student and beginner rough and ...
... graphic arts that may be present , rather than to those who are arrived . I am a student and still a beginner myself ... graphic arts . The confusions and distraction of this day make the path of the student and beginner rough and ...
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... arts , where form and substance are directly associated , revolution is possible , may even be necessary . But the outward form of litera- ture is not typography . The association , in a book , of literature with one of the graphic arts ...
... arts , where form and substance are directly associated , revolution is possible , may even be necessary . But the outward form of litera- ture is not typography . The association , in a book , of literature with one of the graphic arts ...
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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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