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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... manuscripts of a separate leaf being used for the title , but they are quite exceptional , and even these give the ... manuscript would be bound as soon as the calligrapher had finished the text , most of the copies of a printed ...
... manuscripts of a separate leaf being used for the title , but they are quite exceptional , and even these give the ... manuscript would be bound as soon as the calligrapher had finished the text , most of the copies of a printed ...
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... manuscripts of the period . Juvenis : The black - letter of every early printer was but a servile copy of the ... manuscript copy . All the early books abound in infelicities of design and cutting , indicating that the work was ...
... manuscripts of the period . Juvenis : The black - letter of every early printer was but a servile copy of the ... manuscript copy . All the early books abound in infelicities of design and cutting , indicating that the work was ...
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... manuscript will make . Some shorter manuscripts , for instance , need to be " driven out " or padded , to make the book appear greater in content than it actu- ally is , to justify its price . Others need every possible degree of com ...
... manuscript will make . Some shorter manuscripts , for instance , need to be " driven out " or padded , to make the book appear greater in content than it actu- ally is , to justify its price . Others need every possible degree of com ...
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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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