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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... - library label that you could read . No embroidery , just plain function . On the least expensive terms possible . Make it a kind of house - trademark feature . ... Inside I'd forget all I knew about · 147 · W. A. DWIGGINS.
... - library label that you could read . No embroidery , just plain function . On the least expensive terms possible . Make it a kind of house - trademark feature . ... Inside I'd forget all I knew about · 147 · W. A. DWIGGINS.
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... least resistance , and because , according to the best principles of business , the customer is always right . I cannot see why the initiative in design should ever pass back to the printer . The problem was admirably expressed by D. B. ...
... least resistance , and because , according to the best principles of business , the customer is always right . I cannot see why the initiative in design should ever pass back to the printer . The problem was admirably expressed by D. B. ...
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... least ex- acting 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 in- vention of the Benton pantograph punch - cutting machine in 1885 that any other method was known . All ...
... least ex- acting 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 in- vention of the Benton pantograph punch - cutting machine in 1885 that any other method was known . All ...
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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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