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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... SPECIMEN OF PRINTING TYPES , WORCESTER , 1785 As with most type specimens , this early American title page displays many different types and flowers . ( Size , 5 % x 7 % inches ) become the custom to give as much information as possible.
... SPECIMEN OF PRINTING TYPES , WORCESTER , 1785 As with most type specimens , this early American title page displays many different types and flowers . ( Size , 5 % x 7 % inches ) become the custom to give as much information as possible.
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... specimen or specimens they had seen of locally cast type in this character . It is certain , however , that at the time of their action a font of Roman letter had been completed , or at any rate , that it was then in the process of ...
... specimen or specimens they had seen of locally cast type in this character . It is certain , however , that at the time of their action a font of Roman letter had been completed , or at any rate , that it was then in the process of ...
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... specimen book in Amer- ica was that of Binny & Ronaldson of Philadelphia , issued in 1812 ; and from then almost to our own day the type foundries have taken the credit for the type designs which they have offered for sale . Type ...
... specimen book in Amer- ica was that of Binny & Ronaldson of Philadelphia , issued in 1812 ; and from then almost to our own day the type foundries have taken the credit for the type designs which they have offered for sale . Type ...
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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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