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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... serif at the foot ( which has been revived in some modern fonts ) . The modern U begins to come into use in English printing about the middle of the seventeenth century . The letter w In early fonts this is often represented by vv . In ...
... serif at the foot ( which has been revived in some modern fonts ) . The modern U begins to come into use in English printing about the middle of the seventeenth century . The letter w In early fonts this is often represented by vv . In ...
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... serif and kern , they will not appreciate your split- ting of hair spaces . Nobody [ save the other craftsmen ] will appreciate half your skill . But you may spend endless years of happy ex- periment in devising that crystalline goblet ...
... serif and kern , they will not appreciate your split- ting of hair spaces . Nobody [ save the other craftsmen ] will appreciate half your skill . But you may spend endless years of happy ex- periment in devising that crystalline goblet ...
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... serif at the top ( k ) tilts as the pen is tilted ; the loop is a tilted sweep of the slanted pen ; while the serif and loop of the ' modern ' letter ( 1 ) partake of the perpendicular position of the pen . These characteristics of tilt ...
... serif at the top ( k ) tilts as the pen is tilted ; the loop is a tilted sweep of the slanted pen ; while the serif and loop of the ' modern ' letter ( 1 ) partake of the perpendicular position of the pen . These characteristics of tilt ...
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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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