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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... means of satisfying an appetite for sensation among a section of the population not as yet attuned to habitual reading . ... That the Moslem world of Omar Khayyam and Alkarismi transmitted so many of the benefits of Chinese civilisation ...
... means of satisfying an appetite for sensation among a section of the population not as yet attuned to habitual reading . ... That the Moslem world of Omar Khayyam and Alkarismi transmitted so many of the benefits of Chinese civilisation ...
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... means . -Do you consider it a process that adds to the artistic possi- bilities of book printing ? -You mean according to the standards that prevailed in the earlier days of the craft ? -I do . Yes . -According to those standards it ...
... means . -Do you consider it a process that adds to the artistic possi- bilities of book printing ? -You mean according to the standards that prevailed in the earlier days of the craft ? -I do . Yes . -According to those standards it ...
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... means could be made to serve fine ends ; that the machine in printing was a controllable tool . Therefore we set out to be mobilisers of other people's resources ; to be designers , specifiers , rather than manufac turers ; architects ...
... means could be made to serve fine ends ; that the machine in printing was a controllable tool . Therefore we set out to be mobilisers of other people's resources ; to be designers , specifiers , rather than manufac turers ; architects ...
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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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| 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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