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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... matter from another angle altogether . Their policy is to reduce the production cost to the minimum . The minimum in theory would be reached when the public complained . The public hasn't complained , so you can't tell when to stop ...
... matter from another angle altogether . Their policy is to reduce the production cost to the minimum . The minimum in theory would be reached when the public complained . The public hasn't complained , so you can't tell when to stop ...
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... matter , despite tradition , for the greater convenience of the reader . I am sure that this is always why the Index is invariably the last element in back matter . " To Arthur Rushmore , the Anatomy " is darn good copy , clearly stated ...
... matter , despite tradition , for the greater convenience of the reader . I am sure that this is always why the Index is invariably the last element in back matter . " To Arthur Rushmore , the Anatomy " is darn good copy , clearly stated ...
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... matter to define a private press in those terms . The usual argument , however , is less concerned with a fundamental definition than with its interpretation . The uncertainty is about which of the many presses of past and present shall ...
... matter to define a private press in those terms . The usual argument , however , is less concerned with a fundamental definition than with its interpretation . The uncertainty is about which of the many presses of past and present shall ...
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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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