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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... original manuscript . Franklin's epitaph is easily the most familiar in American his- tory , and almost as well - known a document , perhaps , as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address . It is not generally known , however , that the original ...
... original manuscript . Franklin's epitaph is easily the most familiar in American his- tory , and almost as well - known a document , perhaps , as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address . It is not generally known , however , that the original ...
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... original edition , the Limited Collected edition , the Stand- ard edition , form the bulk of Shaw's printed works ; his printed ephemera are not my concern here . There are , however , various editions of what we might call out - of ...
... original edition , the Limited Collected edition , the Stand- ard edition , form the bulk of Shaw's printed works ; his printed ephemera are not my concern here . There are , however , various editions of what we might call out - of ...
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... original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of Edling , Janson's successor , are possessed by the Stempel foundry in Frankfort , Germany . The Linotype recutting of Janson was made from type cast from the original matrices ...
... original matrices , bought in Holland from the heirs of Edling , Janson's successor , are possessed by the Stempel foundry in Frankfort , Germany . The Linotype recutting of Janson was made from type cast from the original matrices ...
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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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