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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... Franklin printed one hundred copies , gave a few to friends , and then , repenting of his materialistic agnosticism , " burnt the rest except one copy " ; pride of authorship would not wholly down . That copy may be one of the four ...
... Franklin printed one hundred copies , gave a few to friends , and then , repenting of his materialistic agnosticism , " burnt the rest except one copy " ; pride of authorship would not wholly down . That copy may be one of the four ...
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... Franklin item , as Franklin must have worked on the book while he was still in Keimer's employ . Thanks to the diligence of its proprietors — or of one of them , for Meredith " was often seen drunk in the streets , and playing at low ...
... Franklin item , as Franklin must have worked on the book while he was still in Keimer's employ . Thanks to the diligence of its proprietors — or of one of them , for Meredith " was often seen drunk in the streets , and playing at low ...
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... Franklin imprints are likely to appear at any time , and as indication , further , that the scarcity of Franklin imprints does not altogether parallel the dates of his activity as printer and publisher . In these notes it has been ...
... Franklin imprints are likely to appear at any time , and as indication , further , that the scarcity of Franklin imprints does not altogether parallel the dates of his activity as printer and publisher . In these notes it has been ...
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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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