Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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For that is just what has been happening in America in this matter , and what it seems must also be occurring in greater ones . There is plenty of thorough scholarship here , scholarship that shrinks from no drudgery — then why is it ...
For that is just what has been happening in America in this matter , and what it seems must also be occurring in greater ones . There is plenty of thorough scholarship here , scholarship that shrinks from no drudgery — then why is it ...
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The modern comma seems to have been introduced into England about 1521 ( in roman type ) and 1535 ( in black letter ) . It occurs in Venetian printing before 1500 . ? The query mark seems to have been used in England from about 1521 . i ...
The modern comma seems to have been introduced into England about 1521 ( in roman type ) and 1535 ( in black letter ) . It occurs in Venetian printing before 1500 . ? The query mark seems to have been used in England from about 1521 . i ...
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The practice of closing the quotation with two apostrophes 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 . ) ...
The practice of closing the quotation with two apostrophes 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 . ) ...
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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Page | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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advertising alphabet American appeared artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common copy decoration device early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later learned less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | World Publishing Company, 1951 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 9 Oct 2008 |
| N.º de páginas | 417 páginas |
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