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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... style at all , or else they fall too easily into the habit of working in the Colonial style , or Venetian style , or some other historical style , rather than in a contemporary one . Maybe they do so for psychological reasons . And ...
... style at all , or else they fall too easily into the habit of working in the Colonial style , or Venetian style , or some other historical style , rather than in a contemporary one . Maybe they do so for psychological reasons . And ...
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... style is original and new . As a matter of fact it is already too late to think in terms of revivals and reproductions . In printing , the revival habit started over a hundred years ago with Whittingham and Pickering , when they dusted ...
... style is original and new . As a matter of fact it is already too late to think in terms of revivals and reproductions . In printing , the revival habit started over a hundred years ago with Whittingham and Pickering , when they dusted ...
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... style differences that comprise the old style , transitional and modern faces suitable for books . And distinc- tions in weight or " color " ; distinctions in roundness , in degree of compactness , and distinctions in legibility , and ...
... style differences that comprise the old style , transitional and modern faces suitable for books . And distinc- tions in weight or " color " ; distinctions in roundness , in degree of compactness , and distinctions in legibility , and ...
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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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