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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 4
Página 80
... serif at the foot ( which has been revived in some modern fonts ) . The modern U begins to come into use in English printing about the middle of the seventeenth century . The letter w In early fonts this is often represented by vv . In ...
... serif at the foot ( which has been revived in some modern fonts ) . The modern U begins to come into use in English printing about the middle of the seventeenth century . The letter w In early fonts this is often represented by vv . In ...
Página 114
... serif and kern , they will not appreciate your split- ting of hair spaces . Nobody [ save the other craftsmen ] will appreciate half your skill . But you may spend endless years of happy ex- periment in devising that crystalline goblet ...
... serif and kern , they will not appreciate your split- ting of hair spaces . Nobody [ save the other craftsmen ] will appreciate half your skill . But you may spend endless years of happy ex- periment in devising that crystalline goblet ...
Página 255
... serif , and on the other to a too - free rejection of the serif altogether . Such a face as Mr. Chappell's " .255 . CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS.
... serif , and on the other to a too - free rejection of the serif altogether . Such a face as Mr. Chappell's " .255 . CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS.
Índice
OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
RUTH S GRANNISS Colophons | 31 |
Página de créditos | |
Otras 27 secciones no se muestran.
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ& abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Abel Buell advertising alphabet amateur artist Baskerville beauty Bodoni Bruce Rogers called calligraphy capitals Caslon cast century character Cockerel colophon contemporary copy Copyright craft craftsmen David Garnett decoration device early English engraved Eric Gill essays folio fonts foundry Franklin friends Golden Cockerel graphic arts Greek Grolier Club hand illustrations important imprint interest invention Italics Janson Kelmscott legibility letter limited editions Linotype look lower-case machine manuscript mark matter means modern Monotype movable type never Nonesuch Nonesuch Press old style original paper printed books printer private press produced publisher reader Reprinted by permission Roman roman type seems serif Shaw Shaw's space specimen standards Stanley Morison taste things tion trade type design type faces typography volume W. A. Dwiggins William Morris word writing