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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German printers brought the art to Rome in 1467 , and two years later John of Spire , like Fust a goldsmith , had started work in Venice . In Switzerland , says McMurtrie , it seems likely that “ the first printing office in Basle began ...
German printers brought the art to Rome in 1467 , and two years later John of Spire , like Fust a goldsmith , had started work in Venice . In Switzerland , says McMurtrie , it seems likely that “ the first printing office in Basle began ...
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a from that habitual bankrupt , Grant Richards , later deserted for the more solid attractions of a “ commissioned ” Constable . Professor G. M. Trevelyan , in one of those two brilliant chapters on Scotland in his English Social ...
a from that habitual bankrupt , Grant Richards , later deserted for the more solid attractions of a “ commissioned ” Constable . Professor G. M. Trevelyan , in one of those two brilliant chapters on Scotland in his English Social ...
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... the designer responsible for the first italic type a half - dozen years later , , and named for Pietro Bembo , the humanist scholar ( later Cardinal and secretary to Pope Leo X ) , whose De Aetna was printed by Aldus in 1495 .
... the designer responsible for the first italic type a half - dozen years later , , and named for Pietro Bembo , the humanist scholar ( later Cardinal and secretary to Pope Leo X ) , whose De Aetna was printed by Aldus in 1495 .
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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Page | 3 |
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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