The Book Fancier: Or, The Romance of Book Collecting |
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Page 35
... artistic air to the whole page . This decoration , while it added seriously to the expense , imparted a separate indi- viduality to each copy . The front page was always Concerning the Incunables or Cradle - Books . 35.
... artistic air to the whole page . This decoration , while it added seriously to the expense , imparted a separate indi- viduality to each copy . The front page was always Concerning the Incunables or Cradle - Books . 35.
Page 47
... artistic merit in its title - page , " colophon , " and in its paper , print , and legibility everything that can be desired . This famous house was a family of printers for many generations , and flourishing for nearly a century and a ...
... artistic merit in its title - page , " colophon , " and in its paper , print , and legibility everything that can be desired . This famous house was a family of printers for many generations , and flourishing for nearly a century and a ...
Page 54
... artistic elegance of design and construction , and one is amazed at their number : in one room there being more than twenty - two . In the correctors ' room - a noble apartment , where once Moretus , Rapheling , and Lipsius , all ...
... artistic elegance of design and construction , and one is amazed at their number : in one room there being more than twenty - two . In the correctors ' room - a noble apartment , where once Moretus , Rapheling , and Lipsius , all ...
Page 77
... artistic printer ; for to secure beauty in typography , art must be applied to the paper and tone of the paper , margin , ink , spacing , size of type , & c . The secret is the find- ing out an elegant proportion in all , i.e. , in a ...
... artistic printer ; for to secure beauty in typography , art must be applied to the paper and tone of the paper , margin , ink , spacing , size of type , & c . The secret is the find- ing out an elegant proportion in all , i.e. , in a ...
Page 113
... artistic work . For we see that too often the little pocket Elzevir is treated on about the same scale as a large quarto , Roger using the same roughly grained red morocco and simple tooling as he did for some huge tome . Neither are ...
... artistic work . For we see that too often the little pocket Elzevir is treated on about the same scale as a large quarto , Roger using the same roughly grained red morocco and simple tooling as he did for some huge tome . Neither are ...
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