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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... device upon a title page . Before quoting their definitions , let us look at the Oxford English Dictionary , where we find : 1. " Finishing stroke " ; " crowning touch , ” obs . 2. The inscription or device , sometimes pictorial or ...
... device upon a title page . Before quoting their definitions , let us look at the Oxford English Dictionary , where we find : 1. " Finishing stroke " ; " crowning touch , ” obs . 2. The inscription or device , sometimes pictorial or ...
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... device of the printer appeared below the title . In his A Treatise on Title - pages , 1902 , Mr. De Vinne proposes ... device would be remembered by the book - buyer who had forgotten the name of his preferred printer . " In the ...
... device of the printer appeared below the title . In his A Treatise on Title - pages , 1902 , Mr. De Vinne proposes ... device would be remembered by the book - buyer who had forgotten the name of his preferred printer . " In the ...
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... devices and afterward to the putting of the device on the first page . " As time went on it was only natural that the remaining space at the foot of the title pages should be utilized for brief details of printing and publishing , but ...
... devices and afterward to the putting of the device on the first page . " As time went on it was only natural that the remaining space at the foot of the title pages should be utilized for brief details of printing and publishing , 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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