The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous Illustrations in Facsimile and Some Observations on the Early and Recent Printing of BooksCentury Company, 1902 - 485 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aldus Aldus Manutius Anatomy of Melancholy Anno arrangement artistic bastard title Bible black-letter bold Book of Hours capital letters Caslon catch-lines Caxton Colard Mansion colophon color composition compositor condensed type copperplate copy copyists decoration device display lines displayed title early edition Elzevir England English engraving on wood exhibit face of type fashion flowers founders France French German grace Grolier Club hair-line illustrations imitation imprint initial letters italic John large types lines of display LONDON Printed Mainz merit method modern Morris needed Nicolas Jenson noticeable old style ornamental types outline paragraph title Paris Pickering preferred printers prominence proper publisher Ratdolt readable reader red ink Reduced facsimile relief of white roman capitals roman letter roman types rule border Schoeffer selected short line small capitals Statius taste thin title matter title-page type-founders typography Venice white space width William Caxton woodcuts words York
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Página 375 - As to the fifteenth century books, I had noticed that they were always beautiful by force of the mere typography, even without the added ornament, with which many of them are so lavishly supplied. And it was the essence of my undertaking to produce books which it would be a pleasure to look upon as pieces of printing and arrangement of type.
Página 375 - I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy to read and should not dazzle the eye, or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentricity of form in the letters.
Página 384 - ... distinguish clearly the division into words, and (b) should be as nearly equal as possible. Modern printers, even the best, pay very little heed to these two essentials of seemly composition, and the inferior ones run riot in licentious spacing, thereby producing, inter alia, those ugly rivers of lines running about the page which are such a blemish to decent printing. Third, the whites between the lines should not be excessive; the modern practice of 'leading...