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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... imprint on the first leaf , was not followed by contemporary printers . Even this solitary case hardly presents a title page in the form in which we know it , since the leaf , in place of a title , has a poem in praise of the book . Of ...
... imprint on the first leaf , was not followed by contemporary printers . Even this solitary case hardly presents a title page in the form in which we know it , since the leaf , in place of a title , has a poem in praise of the book . Of ...
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... imprint of the printer - publisher , so that this blank tends to be the strongest feature on the page . When the device was first abandoned , the author , printer or publisher took advantage of the leisure of the reader and the blank at ...
... imprint of the printer - publisher , so that this blank tends to be the strongest feature on the page . When the device was first abandoned , the author , printer or publisher took advantage of the leisure of the reader and the blank at ...
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... imprint . Sewell's History is doubly a Franklin item , as Franklin must have worked on the book while he was still in Keimer's employ . Thanks to the diligence of its proprietors - or of one of them , for Meredith " was often seen drunk ...
... imprint . Sewell's History is doubly a Franklin item , as Franklin must have worked on the book while he was still in Keimer's employ . Thanks to the diligence of its proprietors - or of one of them , for Meredith " was often seen drunk ...
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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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