Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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Note : This essay towards a rationale of book - typography was first attempted as an article , s.v. “ Typography , ” in the twelfth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica ( Chicago and London , 1929 ) . It was reconsidered and entirely ...
Note : This essay towards a rationale of book - typography was first attempted as an article , s.v. “ Typography , ” in the twelfth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica ( Chicago and London , 1929 ) . It was reconsidered and entirely ...
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But because I can't think of typography as an art in itself , unrelated to all the other arts , I could not approach it except by the way I have . All of these things that I have been complaining about in the other arts , have their ...
But because I can't think of typography as an art in itself , unrelated to all the other arts , I could not approach it except by the way I have . All of these things that I have been complaining about in the other arts , have their ...
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Typography , I repeat , is a servant — the servant of thought and language to which it gives visible existence . When there are new ways of thinking and a new language , it will be time enough for a new typography .
Typography , I repeat , is a servant — the servant of thought and language to which it gives visible existence . When there are new ways of thinking and a new language , it will be time enough for a new typography .
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LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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