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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... example of Ratdolt at Venice , who in 1476 printed a Cal- endar of Regiomontanus with woodcut borders and an imprint ... examples of the John Lydgate , printed by Pynson , c . 1515 , and of the Deceyte of Women , printed by Abraham Vele ...
... example of Ratdolt at Venice , who in 1476 printed a Cal- endar of Regiomontanus with woodcut borders and an imprint ... examples of the John Lydgate , printed by Pynson , c . 1515 , and of the Deceyte of Women , printed by Abraham Vele ...
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... examples of bor- ders made up of separate cast pieces are fairly frequent and are especially common in England in the books of Wynkyn de Worde and his ... example , cut by A Sermöd ( po ken before the hynge his maie · 57 · A. F. JOHNSON.
... examples of bor- ders made up of separate cast pieces are fairly frequent and are especially common in England in the books of Wynkyn de Worde and his ... example , cut by A Sermöd ( po ken before the hynge his maie · 57 · A. F. JOHNSON.
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... examples are fairly numer- ous . In the Netherlands also , beginning with the work of Hubert Goltzius at Bruges , they are ... example , among others . But as far as title pages are concerned they are found most often in the seventeenth ...
... examples are fairly numer- ous . In the Netherlands also , beginning with the work of Hubert Goltzius at Bruges , they are ... example , among others . But as far as title pages are concerned they are found most often in the seventeenth ...
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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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