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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... rules . Rules have been used occasionally at almost all periods , by Geofroy Tory , for example , among others . But as far as title pages are concerned they are found most often in the seventeenth century . The purely typographic title ...
... rules . Rules have been used occasionally at almost all periods , by Geofroy Tory , for example , among others . But as far as title pages are concerned they are found most often in the seventeenth century . The purely typographic title ...
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... rules and spacings generally . Morris granted the necessity of legibility . In this he differed from another poet ... rules . But although legibility must always be the first rule of printing , there are other important principles ...
... rules and spacings generally . Morris granted the necessity of legibility . In this he differed from another poet ... rules . But although legibility must always be the first rule of printing , there are other important principles ...
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... rules , they were often placed outside the rules . This treatment occurs in one of the handsomest books of that period , Nobilitas Politica vel Civilis , printed in 1608 by William Jaggard , the printer of the First Folio fifteen years ...
... rules , they were often placed outside the rules . This treatment occurs in one of the handsomest books of that period , Nobilitas Politica vel Civilis , printed in 1608 by William Jaggard , the printer of the First Folio fifteen years ...
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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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