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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... piece from title to imprint . It is clear that a volume in 12 - point does not require a 30 - point title unless it be a folio in double - column ; and it is of no consequence if the title page is a little shorter than the text pages ...
... piece from title to imprint . It is clear that a volume in 12 - point does not require a 30 - point title unless it be a folio in double - column ; and it is of no consequence if the title page is a little shorter than the text pages ...
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... piece to the overlord and walked out of the identical door to the fulfillment of his high destiny . Franklin was of more than half a mind to return to Boston , in which event Philadelphia would one day have been compelled to seek ...
... piece to the overlord and walked out of the identical door to the fulfillment of his high destiny . Franklin was of more than half a mind to return to Boston , in which event Philadelphia would one day have been compelled to seek ...
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... piece of West- ern Americana should have . In the first place , it looks rare . Like several rare Western items of which only a few copies exist , it was printed in a small mid - Western town . ' Galesburg , Illinois , 1850 ' is an ...
... piece of West- ern Americana should have . In the first place , it looks rare . Like several rare Western items of which only a few copies exist , it was printed in a small mid - Western town . ' Galesburg , Illinois , 1850 ' is an ...
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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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