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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... written word as a medium of instruction or of propaganda and to the availability of any considerable body of written matter for those with inclination and training in the art of reading . Needless to say , one was the laborious nature ...
... written word as a medium of instruction or of propaganda and to the availability of any considerable body of written matter for those with inclination and training in the art of reading . Needless to say , one was the laborious nature ...
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... written word , the vastly increased volume of written matter put into circulation by the printing press could not have come about . As we all know , printing from movable type began in Europe about fifty years before Columbus set out on ...
... written word , the vastly increased volume of written matter put into circulation by the printing press could not have come about . As we all know , printing from movable type began in Europe about fifty years before Columbus set out on ...
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... written form depends upon tradition for letter shape and upon tool for letter character . Distortion is possible and poor form not unusual , but since the pen is essentially the letter - making tool , the natural action of a properly ...
... written form depends upon tradition for letter shape and upon tool for letter character . Distortion is possible and poor form not unusual , but since the pen is essentially the letter - making tool , the natural action of a properly ...
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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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