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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... typography . " Typography may be defined as the art of rightly disposing print- ing material in accordance with specific purpose ; of so arranging the letters , distributing the space and controlling the type as to aid to the maximum ...
... typography . " Typography may be defined as the art of rightly disposing print- ing material in accordance with specific purpose ; of so arranging the letters , distributing the space and controlling the type as to aid to the maximum ...
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... typography are mostly those who have never tried them . In what does the newness of this new typography consist ? It seems to be new as the neu in neurosis from which it largely de- rives . It is new as it would be new for a man to ...
... typography are mostly those who have never tried them . In what does the newness of this new typography consist ? It seems to be new as the neu in neurosis from which it largely de- rives . It is new as it would be new for a man to ...
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... Typography " ; Times Roman for Stanley Morison's " First Principles of Typography " ; Deepdene for Frederic Goudy's " Types and Type Design " ; and Centaur for the extracts from Bruce Rogers ' Paragraphs on Printing . Some background on ...
... Typography " ; Times Roman for Stanley Morison's " First Principles of Typography " ; Deepdene for Frederic Goudy's " Types and Type Design " ; and Centaur for the extracts from Bruce Rogers ' Paragraphs on Printing . Some background on ...
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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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