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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... perhaps , Christopher Plantin at Antwerp who , more than any other printer , made the engraved title - border the fash- ion for all larger and more important publications . But it is with the seventeenth century especially that engraved ...
... perhaps , Christopher Plantin at Antwerp who , more than any other printer , made the engraved title - border the fash- ion for all larger and more important publications . But it is with the seventeenth century especially that engraved ...
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... perhaps we should rather say to indicate any short pause in reading .... The modern comma seems to have been introduced into England about 1521 ( in roman type ) and 1535 ( in black letter ) . It occurs in Venetian printing before 1500 ...
... perhaps we should rather say to indicate any short pause in reading .... The modern comma seems to have been introduced into England about 1521 ( in roman type ) and 1535 ( in black letter ) . It occurs in Venetian printing before 1500 ...
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... perhaps the possibility of a misapprehension with regard to the title of this paper - consider the values and the physical constituents of the fine book . These constituents fall into three divisions : first , Dimensional ( size and ...
... perhaps the possibility of a misapprehension with regard to the title of this paper - consider the values and the physical constituents of the fine book . These constituents fall into three divisions : first , Dimensional ( size and ...
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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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