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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... possible about the contents of the book and the qualifications of author , editor , etc. , and the printer took the opportunity of displaying as large a variety of his types as possible . No doubt the use of title pages as posters for ...
... possible about the contents of the book and the qualifications of author , editor , etc. , and the printer took the opportunity of displaying as large a variety of his types as possible . No doubt the use of title pages as posters for ...
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... possible to come to the truth , and through printing all men may recognize and know the truth . It would be possible for a man of the world to be so without ever stirring from the town of his birth , yet oftener than not the man with ...
... possible to come to the truth , and through printing all men may recognize and know the truth . It would be possible for a man of the world to be so without ever stirring from the town of his birth , yet oftener than not the man with ...
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... possible approximation to my pasted - up designs . As close setting as possible is the secret of most work of this kind . The various parts must hang together well - though I do not mind a slight indication at the joints that they are ...
... possible approximation to my pasted - up designs . As close setting as possible is the secret of most work of this kind . The various parts must hang together well - though I do not mind a slight indication at the joints that they are ...
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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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