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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... Less obvious but hardly less disturbing is a succession of initial letters differing in size , in tone , or in position on the page . The book with initial letters strewn through the text , sometimes several on a single page , is a ...
... Less obvious but hardly less disturbing is a succession of initial letters differing in size , in tone , or in position on the page . The book with initial letters strewn through the text , sometimes several on a single page , is a ...
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... less convenient and less durable and less beautiful . While other industries are helping to develop popular taste and anticipating changes in it , we are waiting for our customers to get mad at us . While we see the masses getting wise ...
... less convenient and less durable and less beautiful . While other industries are helping to develop popular taste and anticipating changes in it , we are waiting for our customers to get mad at us . While we see the masses getting wise ...
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... less paper to use . To turn from the functional use of type to the aesthetic , and also make a rather loose analogy , one may think of the type face as a garment with which the designer dresses the author's words . In this instance the ...
... less paper to use . To turn from the functional use of type to the aesthetic , and also make a rather loose analogy , one may think of the type face as a garment with which the designer dresses the author's words . In this instance 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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| 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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