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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... Caslon the elder loved music , and it is pos- sible that the composer Handel sometimes played his new pieces at the concerts held in Caslon's organ room , since the two men had mutual friends in the musical world of London . There have ...
... Caslon the elder loved music , and it is pos- sible that the composer Handel sometimes played his new pieces at the concerts held in Caslon's organ room , since the two men had mutual friends in the musical world of London . There have ...
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... Caslon . It isn't the original Caslon but a revision with the descenders cut off . See how he's got his O upside down ! Those others -- what's the use of talking about them at all ? It reminds me of the story about the Chinaman- -But ...
... Caslon . It isn't the original Caslon but a revision with the descenders cut off . See how he's got his O upside down ! Those others -- what's the use of talking about them at all ? It reminds me of the story about the Chinaman- -But ...
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... Caslon on a page dimension decided by William Maxwell ; a binding design by Douglas Cockerell ; and a four - colour half - tone jacket from an original drawing by Eric Kennington of a nude female Intelli- gencer looking down a well ...
... Caslon on a page dimension decided by William Maxwell ; a binding design by Douglas Cockerell ; and a four - colour half - tone jacket from an original drawing by Eric Kennington of a nude female Intelli- gencer looking down a well ...
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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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