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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... capitals . Full - sized capitals over- emphasize what is , after all , a repetitive page - feature inserted chiefly for the convenience of librarians and readers interested in the identification of leaves which have worked loose . If ...
... capitals . Full - sized capitals over- emphasize what is , after all , a repetitive page - feature inserted chiefly for the convenience of librarians and readers interested in the identification of leaves which have worked loose . If ...
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... Capitals , and that is all about it . The letters shown in the lower line of Fig . 2 are neither Capitals nor Lower - case . The con- clusion is obvious : there is a complete alphabet of Capital letters , ABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ ...
... Capitals , and that is all about it . The letters shown in the lower line of Fig . 2 are neither Capitals nor Lower - case . The con- clusion is obvious : there is a complete alphabet of Capital letters , ABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ ...
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... Capitals up- ABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i j k lmnopqr s t u v w x y z Figure 4 shows the Capitals , Roman Lower - case and Italics with their customary as well as ...
... Capitals up- ABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i j k lmnopqr s t u v w x y z Figure 4 shows the Capitals , Roman Lower - case and Italics with their customary as well as ...
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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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