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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... space between the letters is greater , or appears greater , by reason of the curves of the c , o , e , g ) , gains in consistency when there is a satisfactory lead between the lines . It is often argued that loose setting is not admir ...
... space between the letters is greater , or appears greater , by reason of the curves of the c , o , e , g ) , gains in consistency when there is a satisfactory lead between the lines . It is often argued that loose setting is not admir ...
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... space at those points where the text is cut into chap- ters , and where the body joins the prefatory and other pages known as " preliminaries . " Now these first pages , being intended rather for reference than for reading and re ...
... space at those points where the text is cut into chap- ters , and where the body joins the prefatory and other pages known as " preliminaries . " Now these first pages , being intended rather for reference than for reading and re ...
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... space between the words even though the resultant " holes " are distressing to the eye . Some- times with very large types it is permissible to letter - space in a ininor degree , as the spaces between the letters naturally are larger ...
... space between the words even though the resultant " holes " are distressing to the eye . Some- times with very large types it is permissible to letter - space in a ininor degree , as the spaces between the letters naturally are larger ...
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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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