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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... reader's comprehension of the text . Typogra- phy is the efficient means to an essentially utilitarian and only accidentally aesthetic end , for enjoyment of patterns is rarely the reader's chief aim . Therefore , any disposition of ...
... reader's comprehension of the text . Typogra- phy is the efficient means to an essentially utilitarian and only accidentally aesthetic end , for enjoyment of patterns is rarely the reader's chief aim . Therefore , any disposition of ...
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... reader from the risk of " doubling " ( reading the same line twice ) . The average line of words which the reader's eye can conveniently seize is between ten and twelve . Nevertheless , the typographer , while exerting himself to the ...
... reader from the risk of " doubling " ( reading the same line twice ) . The average line of words which the reader's eye can conveniently seize is between ten and twelve . Nevertheless , the typographer , while exerting himself to the ...
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... Reader IN OUR enthusiasm for the spirit we are often unjust to the letter . Inward and outward , substance and form are not easily separated . In many circumstances of life and for the vast majority of human beings they constitute an ...
... Reader IN OUR enthusiasm for the spirit we are often unjust to the letter . Inward and outward , substance and form are not easily separated . In many circumstances of life and for the vast majority of human beings they constitute 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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