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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... give it a fitting close . Used in the middle of a book , it could set off chapters and parts . Above all , especially when it was printed in red , it could give life and balance to a title page . ADRIEN VAN BERGHEN in his mark pictures ...
... give it a fitting close . Used in the middle of a book , it could set off chapters and parts . Above all , especially when it was printed in red , it could give life and balance to a title page . ADRIEN VAN BERGHEN in his mark pictures ...
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... give the title on the back of this leaf . The usual practice of the callig- rapher was to give any information considered desirable as to the author and the date and place of the making of the manu- script in the colophon . This ...
... give the title on the back of this leaf . The usual practice of the callig- rapher was to give any information considered desirable as to the author and the date and place of the making of the manu- script in the colophon . This ...
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... give you the Translation of , shews clearly and copiously enough . This Book , being the History of the Beginning and Advance- ment of our Art , shews the Character of the Men who first pro- fess'd It , the Marks of Honour paid them ...
... give you the Translation of , shews clearly and copiously enough . This Book , being the History of the Beginning and Advance- ment of our Art , shews the Character of the Men who first pro- fess'd It , the Marks of Honour paid them ...
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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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