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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Since his day , what with the learned publications of bibliographical societies ( first and foremost — that of England ) , with such scholarly independent productions as Ronald B. McKerrow's Introduction to Bibliography and some of its ...
Since his day , what with the learned publications of bibliographical societies ( first and foremost — that of England ) , with such scholarly independent productions as Ronald B. McKerrow's Introduction to Bibliography and some of its ...
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Most compositors have now learned to use spaces according to the shape of the letters , but the cutting of such letters as V , W , to make them set closer than their natural width is usually very much overdone .
Most compositors have now learned to use spaces according to the shape of the letters , but the cutting of such letters as V , W , to make them set closer than their natural width is usually very much overdone .
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There is no denying that I am old , and toward much that I see around me , I am reactionary ; and I have learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowledge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesiastes to the ...
There is no denying that I am old , and toward much that I see around me , I am reactionary ; and I have learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowledge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesiastes to the ...
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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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advertising alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common copy decoration device early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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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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