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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A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. WILL RANSOM WHAT IS A PRIVATE PRESS WHENEVER private presses are mentioned , one of two questions is certain to be heard . The layman asks , “ What do you mean , a private press ? " while a ...
A Treasury for Typophiles Paul A. Bennett. WILL RANSOM WHAT IS A PRIVATE PRESS WHENEVER private presses are mentioned , one of two questions is certain to be heard . The layman asks , “ What do you mean , a private press ? " while a ...
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... private press , maintain the equipment in his own ownership or control . In this group the personal element is usually the one point of interest , as the typography is generally a mere means to an end . Somewhere in this rating may be ...
... private press , maintain the equipment in his own ownership or control . In this group the personal element is usually the one point of interest , as the typography is generally a mere means to an end . Somewhere in this rating may be ...
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... private press for experi- mental work , as proposed by James Guthrie , who has said : " The artist at the press is , before everything , an explorer . His true mission is to suggest and demonstrate , not ideas thirty years old , but new ...
... private press for experi- mental work , as proposed by James Guthrie , who has said : " The artist at the press is , before everything , an explorer . His true mission is to suggest and demonstrate , not ideas thirty years old , but new ...
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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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