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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... thing is easy to print , but there is every scope for variety and experiment in the work itself . The more elaborate and fanciful the industrial article becomes , the more nauseating it be- -elaboration and fancifulness in such things ...
... thing is easy to print , but there is every scope for variety and experiment in the work itself . The more elaborate and fanciful the industrial article becomes , the more nauseating it be- -elaboration and fancifulness in such things ...
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... things or of using machinery and the factory to turn out , more quickly and cheaply , things whose proper nature is derived from human labor . Thus we have imitation " period " furniture in War- dour Street , and we have imitation ...
... things or of using machinery and the factory to turn out , more quickly and cheaply , things whose proper nature is derived from human labor . Thus we have imitation " period " furniture in War- dour Street , and we have imitation ...
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... things that through our eyes have stirred us by their beauty , really are ! Perhaps another super instrument of disillusionment will be in- vented to reveal us , not in form and color alone , but in spirit , to each other as we really ...
... things that through our eyes have stirred us by their beauty , really are ! Perhaps another super instrument of disillusionment will be in- vented to reveal us , not in form and color alone , but in spirit , to each other as we really ...
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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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