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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... issued about the year 1445 from the press of Gutenberg , a master printer , then resident in Strasbourg . From law - suit rec- ords we know that Fust , a goldsmith of Mainz who financed Gutenberg's earliest trials , was printing there ...
... issued about the year 1445 from the press of Gutenberg , a master printer , then resident in Strasbourg . From law - suit rec- ords we know that Fust , a goldsmith of Mainz who financed Gutenberg's earliest trials , was printing there ...
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... issued . Neither did anyone else until 1929 , when a copy came to light and won its way to a New York bookseller's catalogue . The book is mentioned here , not because it possesses great intrinsic importance ( it would be of trivial ...
... issued . Neither did anyone else until 1929 , when a copy came to light and won its way to a New York bookseller's catalogue . The book is mentioned here , not because it possesses great intrinsic importance ( it would be of trivial ...
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... issued by Anton Janson , a Leipsic punch - cutter and type - founder , between 1660 and 1687. Little is known of Janson to supplement his first type specimen issued in 1675. The original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of ...
... issued by Anton Janson , a Leipsic punch - cutter and type - founder , between 1660 and 1687. Little is known of Janson to supplement his first type specimen issued in 1675. The original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of ...
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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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