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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... Alphabet ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT Do you know your A B C's ? Each Letter Character Has a History and a Reason for Its Present Form . Have you Ever Questioned the Origin and Significance of the Alphabet ? OUR transition from ...
... Alphabet ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT Do you know your A B C's ? Each Letter Character Has a History and a Reason for Its Present Form . Have you Ever Questioned the Origin and Significance of the Alphabet ? OUR transition from ...
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... alphabet represents a crude house , roughly outlined . After food , shelter is an important considera- tion and this fact was expressed by the early alphabet maker . The Greeks again were ignorant of the picture and careless or ...
... alphabet represents a crude house , roughly outlined . After food , shelter is an important considera- tion and this fact was expressed by the early alphabet maker . The Greeks again were ignorant of the picture and careless or ...
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... alphabet since its frequent use by the Greeks . It came from the Roman X ( eex ) which may have been derived from the Greek " ksi . " The latter resembles the Phoenician character " samech , " meaning a post or support . The dagger ...
... alphabet since its frequent use by the Greeks . It came from the Roman X ( eex ) which may have been derived from the Greek " ksi . " The latter resembles the Phoenician character " samech , " meaning a post or support . The dagger ...
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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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