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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... PRESENT PUBLISHED UNDERTAKEN BY THE SOCIETY OF CALLIGRAPHERS 1919 · NOTE : The accompanying extracts from the Transactions of the Society of Calligraphers are published with the approval of the Society . They form a part of the ...
... PRESENT PUBLISHED UNDERTAKEN BY THE SOCIETY OF CALLIGRAPHERS 1919 · NOTE : The accompanying extracts from the Transactions of the Society of Calligraphers are published with the approval of the Society . They form a part of the ...
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... present state of society is a matter to be discussed in connection with the second question . II . Are books necessary to the present social state ? The Com- mittee's finding is , unanimously and conclusively , No. During the past ...
... present state of society is a matter to be discussed in connection with the second question . II . Are books necessary to the present social state ? The Com- mittee's finding is , unanimously and conclusively , No. During the past ...
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... present thoughts , which tomorrow will appear deficient and in need of correction , and indulgence towards myself of yesterday or the past , whose thoughts , however inadequate in the eyes of my present self , yet contained some real ...
... present thoughts , which tomorrow will appear deficient and in need of correction , and indulgence towards myself of yesterday or the past , whose thoughts , however inadequate in the eyes of my present self , yet contained some real ...
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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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