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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... Italic takes ten from the Capitals and twelve from the Lower- case . Figure 3 shows the three alphabets completed ... Italics ; that ABDEFGHKLMNQRTU and Y are always Capitals ; and that aef and g are always Lower - case . But tho ...
... Italic takes ten from the Capitals and twelve from the Lower- case . Figure 3 shows the three alphabets completed ... Italics ; that ABDEFGHKLMNQRTU and Y are always Capitals ; and that aef and g are always Lower - case . But tho ...
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... Italic Capitals , and where upright or nearly upright Italics are used ordi- nary upright Roman Capitals go perfectly well with them . But as Italics are commonly made with a considerable slope and cursive freedom , various sorts of ...
... Italic Capitals , and where upright or nearly upright Italics are used ordi- nary upright Roman Capitals go perfectly well with them . But as Italics are commonly made with a considerable slope and cursive freedom , various sorts of ...
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... Italic , and for Capitals the ordinary upright Roman . Even with a nearly upright Italic , the mere presence of the Italic aef and g alters the whole character of a page , and with a slight narrow- ness as well as a slight slope , the ...
... Italic , and for Capitals the ordinary upright Roman . Even with a nearly upright Italic , the mere presence of the Italic aef and g alters the whole character of a page , and with a slight narrow- ness as well as a slight slope , the ...
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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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