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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is not a waste of time to go to the simple fundamentals and reason from them . In the flurry of your individual problems , I think you will not mind spending half an hour on one broad and simple set of ideas involving abstract ...
is not a waste of time to go to the simple fundamentals and reason from them . In the flurry of your individual problems , I think you will not mind spending half an hour on one broad and simple set of ideas involving abstract ...
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By reason of this quality - the quality of fineness - they are different from trade books , whether or not they are superior must remain for each of us a question of personal values . Since that is true , let us now - having cleared the ...
By reason of this quality - the quality of fineness - they are different from trade books , whether or not they are superior must remain for each of us a question of personal values . Since that is true , let us now - having cleared the ...
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It is of unknown parentage , though there is some reason to suppose that it descended from the Elzevirs ; but it was a face of character and distinction . At the same time the same foundry brought out another design which had an ...
It is of unknown parentage , though there is some reason to suppose that it descended from the Elzevirs ; but it was a face of character and distinction . At the same time the same foundry brought out another design which had an ...
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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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