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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... David Garnett and Vera Mendel to the adventure . David Garnett's family history , like my own , is full of literature . He is the son of two writers and the grandson • 198 . Books and Printing.
... David Garnett and Vera Mendel to the adventure . David Garnett's family history , like my own , is full of literature . He is the son of two writers and the grandson • 198 . Books and Printing.
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... David Garnett already shared with her — the sense of responsibility about texts . And she put sobriety whenever she could into my lush " blurbs . " Her flexibility of mind made our work , too , flexible . She translated Toller's first ...
... David Garnett already shared with her — the sense of responsibility about texts . And she put sobriety whenever she could into my lush " blurbs . " Her flexibility of mind made our work , too , flexible . She translated Toller's first ...
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... David Garnett ; and I sought permission to use it . David Garnett was himself our ambassador . Lawrence appealed to the group of friends with whom he happened to be . " I don't want my letter to be reprinted . I hate the advertising ...
... David Garnett ; and I sought permission to use it . David Garnett was himself our ambassador . Lawrence appealed to the group of friends with whom he happened to be . " I don't want my letter to be reprinted . I hate the advertising ...
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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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