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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... contemporary western civilisation . We shall now try to get into focus the consequences of something quite new in the history of our species , the emer- gence of a social personnel with a vested interest in the enlighten- ment of ...
... contemporary western civilisation . We shall now try to get into focus the consequences of something quite new in the history of our species , the emer- gence of a social personnel with a vested interest in the enlighten- ment of ...
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... contemporary reference to its use . We are in- debted to the correspondence and to the diary of the Rev. Ezra Stiles of Newport , later President of Yale College , for some impor- tant information on early American type founding ...
... contemporary reference to its use . We are in- debted to the correspondence and to the diary of the Rev. Ezra Stiles of Newport , later President of Yale College , for some impor- tant information on early American type founding ...
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... contemporary printer may be briefly stated as follows : to produce beautiful and modern print - patterns by means of labour - saving machinery . There have been numerous attempts in recent years to improve the quality of printing . But ...
... contemporary printer may be briefly stated as follows : to produce beautiful and modern print - patterns by means of labour - saving machinery . There have been numerous attempts in recent years to improve the quality of printing . But ...
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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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