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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... Amateur : and The Pleasure of Small Books PRINTERS , as a class , like all other craftsmen , can only thrive by supplying their customers with what they want at prices which they are willing to pay . Here and there an exceptionally ...
... Amateur : and The Pleasure of Small Books PRINTERS , as a class , like all other craftsmen , can only thrive by supplying their customers with what they want at prices which they are willing to pay . Here and there an exceptionally ...
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... amateur publishers than amateur print- ers working private presses with a hired man to do the heavy work . But if we choose to think of them only as customers , they were customers who knew what they wanted and brought the printer under ...
... amateur publishers than amateur print- ers working private presses with a hired man to do the heavy work . But if we choose to think of them only as customers , they were customers who knew what they wanted and brought the printer under ...
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... Amateur Printer : HIS PLEASURES AND HIS DUTIES ALTHOUGH the title of this piece is sufficiently long to be impressive and important - sounding , all I really want to write about is printing as fun . I am going to write about the amateur ...
... Amateur Printer : HIS PLEASURES AND HIS DUTIES ALTHOUGH the title of this piece is sufficiently long to be impressive and important - sounding , all I really want to write about is printing as fun . I am going to write about the amateur ...
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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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