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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... foundry on his own account . In this separate establishment , it is likely that he was able to devote to the business such time and energy as would be required in making a font of sufficient size to accommodate the needs of such a ...
... foundry on his own account . In this separate establishment , it is likely that he was able to devote to the business such time and energy as would be required in making a font of sufficient size to accommodate the needs of such a ...
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... foundry of Binny & Ronaldson of Philadelphia.11 The identification of the various fonts of locally made type used in Pennsylvania in the quarter century following " The first Work with Amer . Types " would form an interesting chapter in ...
... foundry of Binny & Ronaldson of Philadelphia.11 The identification of the various fonts of locally made type used in Pennsylvania in the quarter century following " The first Work with Amer . Types " would form an interesting chapter in ...
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... Foundry of St. Louis introduced a face which became widely used , called ( for no better reason than attends the christening of most type faces ) " De Vinne . " It is of unknown parentage , though there is some reason to suppose that it ...
... Foundry of St. Louis introduced a face which became widely used , called ( for no better reason than attends the christening of most type faces ) " De Vinne . " It is of unknown parentage , though there is some reason to suppose that it ...
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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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