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Books and Printing

A Treasury for Typophiles

Paul A. Bennett (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
385 Seiten
2021
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5361-9110-3 (ISBN)
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This is a collection of articles by some of the most famous book designers and historians, including Beatrice Warde, Updike, and Morison. Some of the subjects included, are printers' marks, the fine art of printing, typefaces, calligraphy, and the parts of the book. This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know about the art of printing and book making.

Preface; Acknowledgments; By Way of Introduction; The Story of the Alphabet; Printing, Paper and Playing Cards; Colophons; Printers Marks; Title Pages: Their Forms and Development; The First Work with American Types; Typographic Debut; Metal-Flowers; The History of the Invention and Progress of the Mysterious Art of Printing &c; Printers As Men of the World; Are Women the Natural Enemies of Books?; Printing Should Be Invisible; The Ideal Book; Extracts from an Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books; Twenty Years After; The Publisher and the Typographer; The Anatomy of the Book: A Symposium; Trade Bookmaking: Complaint in Three Dimensions; What Is a Private Press?; The Trained Printer and the Amateur: and the Pleasure of Small Books; Some Collectors Read; Printing for Love; The Fun and Fury of a Private Press: Some Voyages of The Golden Hind; The Fine Art of Printing; The Typography of William Morris; First Principles of Typography; American Type Designers and Their Work; Typography; Types and Type Design; The Old and the New: A Friendly Dispute between Juvenis & Senex; Paragraphs on Printing; B.R.: Adventurer with Type Ornament; Some Tendencies in Modern Typography; The Amateur Printer: His Pleasures and His Duties; Harsh Words; A Comparison of Calligraphy & Lettering; Typography for the Twentieth-Century Reader; Notes on Modern Printing; Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher; The Book & Job Print; Author and Printer: G.B.S. and R.&R.C.: 1898-1948; On Type Faces for Books; Notes on the Type Faces Used in This Book; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 838 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
ISBN-10 1-5361-9110-8 / 1536191108
ISBN-13 978-1-5361-9110-3 / 9781536191103
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