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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... produced Chaucer as Henry Irving and Beerbohm Tree produced Shakespeare . I suspect that enthusiasts for such productions are not readers . The idea is supported by the fact that the majority of Kelm- scotts are still in mint state ; it ...
... produced Chaucer as Henry Irving and Beerbohm Tree produced Shakespeare . I suspect that enthusiasts for such productions are not readers . The idea is supported by the fact that the majority of Kelm- scotts are still in mint state ; it ...
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... produce blocked - out lines of capitals must be done with great caution and skill or else a very uneven texture will be produced . Frequently it is better to abandon the idea of a block of type if the spacing cannot be done with a ...
... produce blocked - out lines of capitals must be done with great caution and skill or else a very uneven texture will be produced . Frequently it is better to abandon the idea of a block of type if the spacing cannot be done with a ...
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... produced " would be by actually composing a sheet or two in exact facsimile of an Elizabethan quarto and printing it on a hand - press . “ Once he does this , " he adds , “ he will find that the material book , apart altogether from its ...
... produced " would be by actually composing a sheet or two in exact facsimile of an Elizabethan quarto and printing it on a hand - press . “ Once he does this , " he adds , “ he will find that the material book , apart altogether from its ...
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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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