The art & practice of typography : a manual of American printing, including a brief history up to the twentieth century, with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft, and a practical discussion and an extensive demonstration of the modern use of type-faces and methods of arrangement (1917)
Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger), 1872-1934, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 42
rk curtainof ignorance was rung down. Manuscript books are so-called from the Latin wordsmanu scripti, meaning written by hand, and the initialsof these two Latin words are frequently used for the wordmanuscript, i.e., MS. The materials upon which books were written haveat various times been clay,… … tri-pointed instrument upon damp clay, which was thenmade permanent by baking. In 1845 a library of bakedclay tablets was discovered among the ruins of Nineveh.Thousands of these tablets have been collected in theBritish Museum, the most interesting of which is onewhich had been broken in eighteen…
Printing · Graphic design (Typography) · Advertising layout and typography
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