Fine Print, Volume 8S. Kirshenbaum, 1982 |
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... display the 562 typefaces available for VIP photocomposition by Volk & Huxley , a New York typographic house . After a brief introduction to the methods of VIP composition and copyfitting , the books launch into the real stuff , over ...
... display the 562 typefaces available for VIP photocomposition by Volk & Huxley , a New York typographic house . After a brief introduction to the methods of VIP composition and copyfitting , the books launch into the real stuff , over ...
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... display majus- cules , the two together sometimes occupying a full page . The litterae notabiliores and the larger display initials indicated a path through the text for the reader , who until the fourteenth century could not expect a ...
... display majus- cules , the two together sometimes occupying a full page . The litterae notabiliores and the larger display initials indicated a path through the text for the reader , who until the fourteenth century could not expect a ...
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... display letters and text . Thus they had to invent a way to integrate an orna- mented initial several inches in height with the text block . In a sixth - century psalter , the Irish scribe drew the enlarged letter of each new psalm into ...
... display letters and text . Thus they had to invent a way to integrate an orna- mented initial several inches in height with the text block . In a sixth - century psalter , the Irish scribe drew the enlarged letter of each new psalm into ...
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