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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... seem- ingly all - important matter of the investment value of our treasures . This surely is not the fine frenzy ... seems to be a growing tendency , shared ( even instigated ) by lexicogra- phers , to mis - define the word , or to ...
... seem- ingly all - important matter of the investment value of our treasures . This surely is not the fine frenzy ... seems to be a growing tendency , shared ( even instigated ) by lexicogra- phers , to mis - define the word , or to ...
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... seems to have been used in England from about 1521 . ; The semicolon seems to have been first used in England about 1569 , but was not common until 1580 or thereabouts . • The full stop was commonly used before as well as after roman ...
... seems to have been used in England from about 1521 . ; The semicolon seems to have been first used in England about 1569 , but was not common until 1580 or thereabouts . • The full stop was commonly used before as well as after roman ...
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... seems to be comparatively modern . ( I have found it in the middle of the eighteenth century , but it does not seem to have been regularly observed until much later . ) Inverted commas , as well as many other signs , Greek letters ...
... seems to be comparatively modern . ( I have found it in the middle of the eighteenth century , but it does not seem to have been regularly observed until much later . ) Inverted commas , as well as many other signs , Greek letters ...
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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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