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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The number of editions printed in England increased from 13 in 1510 to 219 in 1580 , to about 600 a year in the first two decades of the nineteenth cen- tury and 12,379 in 1913. Unhappily , an edition is a grossly mis- leading index of ...
The number of editions printed in England increased from 13 in 1510 to 219 in 1580 , to about 600 a year in the first two decades of the nineteenth cen- tury and 12,379 in 1913. Unhappily , an edition is a grossly mis- leading index of ...
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But if the English edition had been printed on better paper , it would have been the easier of the two editions to read . . . " With the exception of the last sentence , the whole of this passage seems misleading and irrelevant .
But if the English edition had been printed on better paper , it would have been the easier of the two editions to read . . . " With the exception of the last sentence , the whole of this passage seems misleading and irrelevant .
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The original edition , the Limited Collected edition , the Stand- ard edition , form the bulk of Shaw's printed works ; his printed ephemera are not my concern here . There are , however , various editions of what we might call out - of ...
The original edition , the Limited Collected edition , the Stand- ard edition , form the bulk of Shaw's printed works ; his printed ephemera are not my concern here . There are , however , various editions of what we might call out - of ...
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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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