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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... Art of Printing HOLBROOK JACKSON The Typography of William Morris 226 233 STANLEY MORISON First Principles of Typography CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS American Type Designers 239 and Their Work ERIC GILL Typography FREDERIC W. GOUDY Types and Type ...
... Art of Printing HOLBROOK JACKSON The Typography of William Morris 226 233 STANLEY MORISON First Principles of Typography CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS American Type Designers 239 and Their Work ERIC GILL Typography FREDERIC W. GOUDY Types and Type ...
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... design bore no relation to the subject matter , either in materials , format , or typography , and these were by no means all from the hands of inexperienced de- signers . Many suffered , of course , because good types are not available ...
... design bore no relation to the subject matter , either in materials , format , or typography , and these were by no means all from the hands of inexperienced de- signers . Many suffered , of course , because good types are not available ...
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... type de- sign became an " art " rather than a craft , and as might be expected the personality of the designer ... design . For it was the two basic machines invented and developed by Linn Boyd Benton which made it possible for those ...
... type de- sign became an " art " rather than a craft , and as might be expected the personality of the designer ... design . For it was the two basic machines invented and developed by Linn Boyd Benton which made it possible for those ...
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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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