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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... learned publications of bibliographical societies ( first and foremost - that of England ) , with such scholarly independent productions as Ronald B. Mc- Kerrow's Introduction to Bibliography and some of its followers , and with such ...
... learned publications of bibliographical societies ( first and foremost - that of England ) , with such scholarly independent productions as Ronald B. Mc- Kerrow's Introduction to Bibliography and some of its followers , and with such ...
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... learned to use spaces according to the shape of the letters , but the cutting of such letters as V , W , to make them set closer than their natural width is usually very much overdone . The new logo- types cut for this purpose are ...
... learned to use spaces according to the shape of the letters , but the cutting of such letters as V , W , to make them set closer than their natural width is usually very much overdone . The new logo- types cut for this purpose are ...
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... learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowl- edge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesi- astes to the effect that there is nothing new under the sun . I plead guilty to this hideous indictment and throw ...
... learned nothing in all my years of striving for knowl- edge , more convincing than that statement in the Book of Ecclesi- astes to the effect that there is nothing new under the sun . I plead guilty to this hideous indictment and throw ...
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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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