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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... natural arrangement , printing the matter exactly as if on a page of the text . Geofroy Tory , a book producer whose work was of great importance in the history of the book , seems to have been against the fashion of his day in his ...
... natural arrangement , printing the matter exactly as if on a page of the text . Geofroy Tory , a book producer whose work was of great importance in the history of the book , seems to have been against the fashion of his day in his ...
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... natural foes of books " met my eye . They were classed with the other enemies of books : damp , dust , dirt , book- worms , careless readers , borrowers , book stealers , book - ghouls , etc. , so I hastily turned to the page and read ...
... natural foes of books " met my eye . They were classed with the other enemies of books : damp , dust , dirt , book- worms , careless readers , borrowers , book stealers , book - ghouls , etc. , so I hastily turned to the page and read ...
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... natural width is usually very much overdone . The new logo- types cut for this purpose are are equally faulty in this respect . The resulting effect is more noticeable and more objection- able than the natural setting of the would be ...
... natural width is usually very much overdone . The new logo- types cut for this purpose are are equally faulty in this respect . The resulting effect is more noticeable and more objection- able than the natural setting of the would be ...
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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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