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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... Abel Buell's First Font From a proof of May 1769. Courtesy of the Yale University Library Buell was not without a rival in his ambitious plans . David Mitchelson of Boston , possibly acting under the direction of John Mein , a printer ...
... Abel Buell's First Font From a proof of May 1769. Courtesy of the Yale University Library Buell was not without a rival in his ambitious plans . David Mitchelson of Boston , possibly acting under the direction of John Mein , a printer ...
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... ABEL BUELL of Killingworth Humbly fheweth ; That your Memorialist having Experienc'd the Great Goodness of this ... Abel Brill Abel Buell's Second Font , October 1769 Courtesy of the Connecticut State Archives at Germantown in the year ...
... ABEL BUELL of Killingworth Humbly fheweth ; That your Memorialist having Experienc'd the Great Goodness of this ... Abel Brill Abel Buell's Second Font , October 1769 Courtesy of the Connecticut State Archives at Germantown in the year ...
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... Abel Buell's venture in letter casting , supported as this fact is by his interest in American manufactures generally , lends a certain amount of weight to any observation that he might make on the subject of American type founding ...
... Abel Buell's venture in letter casting , supported as this fact is by his interest in American manufactures generally , lends a certain amount of weight to any observation that he might make on the subject of American type founding ...
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OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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