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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... written word as a medium of instruction or of propaganda and to the availability of any considerable body of written matter for those with inclination and training in the art of reading . Needless to say , one was the laborious nature ...
... written word as a medium of instruction or of propaganda and to the availability of any considerable body of written matter for those with inclination and training in the art of reading . Needless to say , one was the laborious nature ...
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... written word , the vastly increased volume of written matter put into circulation by the printing press could not have come about . As we all know , printing from movable type began in Europe about fifty years before Columbus set out on ...
... written word , the vastly increased volume of written matter put into circulation by the printing press could not have come about . As we all know , printing from movable type began in Europe about fifty years before Columbus set out on ...
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... written forms in this freely rendered fragment of a ninth - century manuscript . Built - up and written forms each have their place . One of the tenets of fine letter art is that the forms be in perfect taste ; that is , that the letter ...
... written forms in this freely rendered fragment of a ninth - century manuscript . Built - up and written forms each have their place . One of the tenets of fine letter art is that the forms be in perfect taste ; that is , that the letter ...
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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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| 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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