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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... Bodoni , the classi- cal school , whose technical achievement has hardly been sur- passed at any period . One may cavil at their conception of the ideal shape of letters , one may dislike their excessive use of hair lines and their flat ...
... Bodoni , the classi- cal school , whose technical achievement has hardly been sur- passed at any period . One may cavil at their conception of the ideal shape of letters , one may dislike their excessive use of hair lines and their flat ...
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... Bodoni type at ten feet are more distressing in his small types , usually read at the distance of fifteen inches . The over - sharp hair - line , the dazzling serif , and the vanishing curve are more irritating in the smaller than in ...
... Bodoni type at ten feet are more distressing in his small types , usually read at the distance of fifteen inches . The over - sharp hair - line , the dazzling serif , and the vanishing curve are more irritating in the smaller than in ...
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... Bodoni , Giambattista , 60 , 64 , 92 , 98 Manuale Tipografico ( 1818 ) , 276 Bodoni Book type face specimen , 412 Bodoni's ' soprasilvio , ' 276–78 , 284 , 287 Bologna , Francesco da , 92 book , anatomy of ; see under individual ...
... Bodoni , Giambattista , 60 , 64 , 92 , 98 Manuale Tipografico ( 1818 ) , 276 Bodoni Book type face specimen , 412 Bodoni's ' soprasilvio , ' 276–78 , 284 , 287 Bologna , Francesco da , 92 book , anatomy of ; see under individual ...
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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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