Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles

xv, 417 pp. A collection of over forty articles, poems, excerpts, and essays by the foremost practitioners of the art of bookmaking covering a wide variety of typophilic subjects -- 'First Work with American Types,' 'Printers as Men of the World,' 'Lettering and Calligraphy,' etc. Set in 22 different type faces. Includes over 100 illustrations of printers' marks, decorative bookplates, specimen pages, etc.