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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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Printers ' Marks Janson A PRINTER'S mark is a trade - mark . Printers used them in the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the same pur- pose that printers employ them today - to ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. Printers ' Marks Janson A PRINTER'S mark is a trade - mark . Printers used them in the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the same pur- pose that printers employ them today - to ...
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... marks became common . Craftsmen of every trade were frequently compelled either by law or by guild regulations , to affix a mark to their products as a guarantee of their honesty and good workmanship . Such marks were required ...
... marks became common . Craftsmen of every trade were frequently compelled either by law or by guild regulations , to affix a mark to their products as a guarantee of their honesty and good workmanship . Such marks were required ...
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... mark pictures his printing house " at the Sign of the Great Golden Mortar in the market place " at Antwerp , where he started in 1500 . By the printer's mark , also , a prospective purchaser could rec- ognize at a glance the product of ...
... mark pictures his printing house " at the Sign of the Great Golden Mortar in the market place " at Antwerp , where he started in 1500 . By the printer's mark , also , a prospective purchaser could rec- ognize at a glance the product of ...
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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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