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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... original creation is bound to persist . There is an incessant demand for the antique : we should not be too hard on the printers who supply it . If they are sinning , they are at least sinning in company . Let the architects and paint ...
... original creation is bound to persist . There is an incessant demand for the antique : we should not be too hard on the printers who supply it . If they are sinning , they are at least sinning in company . Let the architects and paint ...
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... original edition was inevitable . We know that he picked up the pre - Kelmscott formula ready- made from William Morris ; but , unlike the founding fathers of the private press movement , he lacked the unearned income to indulge in a ...
... original edition was inevitable . We know that he picked up the pre - Kelmscott formula ready- made from William Morris ; but , unlike the founding fathers of the private press movement , he lacked the unearned income to indulge in a ...
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... original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of Edling , Janson's successor , are possessed by the Stempel foundry in Frankfort , Germany . The Linotype recutting of Janson was made from type cast from the original matrices ...
... original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of Edling , Janson's successor , are possessed by the Stempel foundry in Frankfort , Germany . The Linotype recutting of Janson was made from type cast from the original matrices ...
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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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