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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... compositor of the fifteenth cen- tury enjoys an immeasurable advantage over his fourteenth- century fellow craftsman who has to manipulate several thousand Chinese characters . Korea took up movable type , probably through Chinese ...
... compositor of the fifteenth cen- tury enjoys an immeasurable advantage over his fourteenth- century fellow craftsman who has to manipulate several thousand Chinese characters . Korea took up movable type , probably through Chinese ...
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... compositor and set it up mechanically came to naught . Finally , however , Ottmar Mergen- thaler invented a machine which , by the action of a keyboard somewhat resembling that of a typewriter , assembled not type but matrices and ...
... compositor and set it up mechanically came to naught . Finally , however , Ottmar Mergen- thaler invented a machine which , by the action of a keyboard somewhat resembling that of a typewriter , assembled not type but matrices and ...
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... compositor had not enough . Ligatures Two or more letters joined together , or differing in design from the separate letters , and cast on one type - body , such as & t or ffi , are called a ligature . There were two reasons for their ...
... compositor had not enough . Ligatures Two or more letters joined together , or differing in design from the separate letters , and cast on one type - body , such as & t or ffi , are called a ligature . There were two reasons for their ...
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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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