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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... experienced trade - book designers with considerable production and manufacturing experience , the Anatomy text was less satisfactory . Both Evelyn Harter and Milton Glick found the text too dogmatic in its dicta . They were bothered ...
... experienced trade - book designers with considerable production and manufacturing experience , the Anatomy text was less satisfactory . Both Evelyn Harter and Milton Glick found the text too dogmatic in its dicta . They were bothered ...
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... experience . It is impossible to watch seeds grow into plants and flowers and fruit and still to believe cynically in a mere mechanistic explanation for such a life drive . To get back to the seed , the earth , and the root is to re ...
... experience . It is impossible to watch seeds grow into plants and flowers and fruit and still to believe cynically in a mere mechanistic explanation for such a life drive . To get back to the seed , the earth , and the root is to re ...
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... experience must have been of some value to him because it was not long before he and his partner , James Kirkwood ... experienced production staffs dealing with many dif- ferent paper - makers , printers and binders . For this reason ...
... experience must have been of some value to him because it was not long before he and his partner , James Kirkwood ... experienced production staffs dealing with many dif- ferent paper - makers , printers and binders . For this reason ...
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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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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| 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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