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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harry Lyman Koopman |
| OCLC Number: | 1747013 |
| Notes: | "Most of these chapters appeared as papers in "The Printing art;́ two were published in ʻThe Graphic arts,̓ and some in other magazines."-- Prefatory note. |
| Description: | vii p., 2 1., 3-185 p. front. (facsim.) 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Books and booklovers.--Fitness in book design.--Print as an interpreter of meaning.--Favorite book sizes.--The value of reading.--The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow.--A constructive critic of the book.--Books as a librarian would like them.--The book beautiful.--The reader's high privilege.--The background of the book.--The Chinese book.--Thick paper and thin.--The clothing of a book.--Parchment bindings.--Lest we forget the few great books.--Printing problems for science to solve.--Types and eyes: the problem.--Types and eyes: progress.--Exceptions to the rule of legibility.--The student and the library.--Orthographic reform.--The perversities of type.-- A secret of personal power. |
| Responsibility: | by Harry Lyman Koopman... |
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