Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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... and the information they gave was gradually transferred to the title page . Complete title pages bearing the date and name of the publishers are found in most books printed after 1520 , and the final para- graph , if retained at all ...
... and the information they gave was gradually transferred to the title page . Complete title pages bearing the date and name of the publishers are found in most books printed after 1520 , and the final para- graph , if retained at all ...
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In order to leave complete freedom as to number of pages , the favorite custom is to number the text pages in arabic folio num- bers , beginning with 1. The front pages are then numbered with roman folios , and thus it makes no ...
In order to leave complete freedom as to number of pages , the favorite custom is to number the text pages in arabic folio num- bers , beginning with 1. The front pages are then numbered with roman folios , and thus it makes no ...
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... The Complete Plays , the illustrated Black Girl , the illus- trated Good King Charles's Golden Days ( there was also an illustrated edition of Geneva printed by the Chiswick Press ) and the illustrated Penguin edition of Pygmalion .
... The Complete Plays , the illustrated Black Girl , the illus- trated Good King Charles's Golden Days ( there was also an illustrated edition of Geneva printed by the Chiswick Press ) and the illustrated Penguin edition of Pygmalion .
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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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alphabet American appear artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration desirable device early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Contribuidores | World Publishing Company, George Grady Press |
| 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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