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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... Italy , where , after 1550 , examples are fairly numer- ous . In the Netherlands also , beginning with the work of Hubert Goltzius at Bruges , they are met with almost as frequently as in Italy . It was , perhaps , Christopher Plantin ...
... Italy , where , after 1550 , examples are fairly numer- ous . In the Netherlands also , beginning with the work of Hubert Goltzius at Bruges , they are met with almost as frequently as in Italy . It was , perhaps , Christopher Plantin ...
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... Italy and France were used to a high standard of excellence in the books , manuscript or printed , which they put on their shelves , but it is to the credit of Aldus and the Estiennes and Simon Colines and Geoffroy Tory that they ...
... Italy and France were used to a high standard of excellence in the books , manuscript or printed , which they put on their shelves , but it is to the credit of Aldus and the Estiennes and Simon Colines and Geoffroy Tory that they ...
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... Italy has knocked its parlia- ment down and handed the whip to Signor Mussolini to thrash Italian democracy and bureaucracy into some sort of order and efficiency . In Spain the king and the military commander - in- chief have refused ...
... Italy has knocked its parlia- ment down and handed the whip to Signor Mussolini to thrash Italian democracy and bureaucracy into some sort of order and efficiency . In Spain the king and the military commander - in- chief have refused ...
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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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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | World Publishing Company, 1951 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 25 Ago 2009 |
| N.º de páginas | 417 páginas |
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