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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... practice before the Christian era began ; and it was China which produced the first paper . Probably about A.D. 700 , though it may well be earlier , the practice of stamping charms by wood blocks on paper began there . In A.D. 767 the ...
... practice before the Christian era began ; and it was China which produced the first paper . Probably about A.D. 700 , though it may well be earlier , the practice of stamping charms by wood blocks on paper began there . In A.D. 767 the ...
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... practice of the MSS . There were certain exceptions : Sweynheim and Pannartz , setting up the first press in Italy at Subiaco in 1465 , used a type transitional in character though with marked gothic features , which used the long f in ...
... practice of the MSS . There were certain exceptions : Sweynheim and Pannartz , setting up the first press in Italy at Subiaco in 1465 , used a type transitional in character though with marked gothic features , which used the long f in ...
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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. -So that it is your practice to stretch out the text if it is too short by printing it on egg - box stock ? -Not my practice , particularly . All publishers do it . We are obliged to use this ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. -So that it is your practice to stretch out the text if it is too short by printing it on egg - box stock ? -Not my practice , particularly . All publishers do it . We are obliged to use this ...
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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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| Título | Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles Volumen 259 de Forum books Forum books, F259 |
| Editor | Paul A. Bennett |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | World Publishing Company, 1951 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 25 Ago 2009 |
| N.º de páginas | 417 páginas |
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