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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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. sonant by making the letter I longer , J ; but they did not give a distinct letter form for the capital J until the sixteenth century . The small j came into being nearly a century later . The ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. sonant by making the letter I longer , J ; but they did not give a distinct letter form for the capital J until the sixteenth century . The small j came into being nearly a century later . The ...
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... letter around , and later , oddly enough , introduced a curve making it exactly like the Roman letter P. The extra stroke which we find in the Roman letter was no doubt due to the carelessness in copy- ing . They pronounced it R ( air ) ...
... letter around , and later , oddly enough , introduced a curve making it exactly like the Roman letter P. The extra stroke which we find in the Roman letter was no doubt due to the carelessness in copy- ing . They pronounced it R ( air ) ...
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... Letter - spacing is often misused . It is safe to say that lower- case type should practically never be letter - spaced , for the indi- vidual letters were designed for close combination with other letters of the alphabet . If it ...
... Letter - spacing is often misused . It is safe to say that lower- case type should practically never be letter - spaced , for the indi- vidual letters were designed for close combination with other letters of the alphabet . If 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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