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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... human nature being what it is , most printers will willingly accept a publisher's design because it is the line of least resistance , and because , according to the best principles of business , the customer is always right .
... human nature being what it is , most printers will willingly accept a publisher's design because it is the line of least resistance , and because , according to the best principles of business , the customer is always right .
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Very often he fails ; almost always he finds that he must engage at least one skilled journeyman to help him through . But occasionally he succeeds , and when he succeeds he brings new life into the craft of printing Definitions of what ...
Very often he fails ; almost always he finds that he must engage at least one skilled journeyman to help him through . But occasionally he succeeds , and when he succeeds he brings new life into the craft of printing Definitions of what ...
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Not the least exacting part of the work was the cutting of the punch on the end of a short bar of softened steel . It was not until the invention of the Benton pantograph punch - cutting machine in 1885 that any other method was known .
Not the least exacting part of the work was the cutting of the punch on the end of a short bar of softened steel . It was not until the invention of the Benton pantograph punch - cutting machine in 1885 that any other method was known .
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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 |
| 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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