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Type for Books A Designer's Manual.
de Mackays of Chatham
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- ISBN 10
- 0370113098
- ISBN 13
- 9780370113098
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London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1976. First published in 1959, this is a new edition from 1976. Hardback. xix, 280pp. Dust jacket. Mackay's unrivalled type specimen book was first published in 1959 and this is a copy of the new, third edition. The subtitle, "A Designer's Manual', is fully justified since the book includes 100 pages of specimen text settings showing the typefaces in vartious sizes and leadings. For each typeface every alphabet in both text and display sizes is shown complete with figures and marks of punctuation. Character and word count tables are included. The text faces are: Barbon, Baskerville, Bell, Bembo, Bulmer, Caslon, Ehrhardt, Garamond, Imprint, Plantin, Poliphilus, Scptch Rpman, Times, Van Dijck and Walbaum.The display faces are equally wide-ranging and include some 30-odd designs for Typositor filmsetting. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Minor edge wear. Some slight discolouration to spine.
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- Librería
- Ariadne Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1308229
- Título
- Type for Books A Designer's Manual.
- Autor
- Mackays of Chatham
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0370113098
- ISBN 13
- 9780370113098
- Editorial
- The Bodley Head Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1976
- Palabras clave
- Type, typesetting, type faces.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Art, Architecture & Photography;
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