Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesA 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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soul , and William Caxton's business - like statement as editor , printer and publisher . The author's struggle with the printer , to obtain his own way , is no new thing , as proved by this late colophon of the musician , Johann von ...
soul , and William Caxton's business - like statement as editor , printer and publisher . The author's struggle with the printer , to obtain his own way , is no new thing , as proved by this late colophon of the musician , Johann von ...
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If we were to consider the term " printer " narrowly in the sense of a typesetter or a pressman or a man who supervises these operations , we should still have to make room in our history for men like Jean Grolier , the patron ...
If we were to consider the term " printer " narrowly in the sense of a typesetter or a pressman or a man who supervises these operations , we should still have to make room in our history for men like Jean Grolier , the patron ...
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A pub- lisher who knows what he wants employs a printer who is an artist , and the result should be a masterpiece of give and take . A publisher who does not know what he wants employs a printer who is an artist , and the result should ...
A pub- lisher who knows what he wants employs a printer who is an artist , and the result should be a masterpiece of give and take . A publisher who does not know what he wants employs a printer who is an artist , and the result should ...
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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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alphabet American appear artist beauty become beginning called capitals cast century character colophon common COMPOSED copy decoration desirable device early edition English example experience face fact Franklin friends give Greek hand head idea illustrations important interest issued Italy John kind known later less letter limited living look machine mark matter means mind Morris natural never original ornaments perhaps period possible practice present printer printing private press produced publisher question reader reason relation Reprinted result Roman rule seems sense simple space standards style taste things thought tion trade turn typography volume whole writing written
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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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