Research Catalog

Title

The fine book, a symposium; being divers essays and articles by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Henri Focillon, Porter Garnett ... [and others]. Edited with an introduction by Porter Garnett ...

Author

Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951

Publication

Pittsburgh, The Laboratory press, 1934.

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Additional Authors

• Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress)
• Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

Description

xxxiii(1) p.,, 1 l., 189 (1) p., 1 l.; 21 cm.

Subjects

• Printing
• Book industries and trade

Note

• One of 225 copies printed.
• Bound by Grabau in niger.
• Reprinted from various sources.

Contents

Morris, W. The ideal book.--Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. The book beautiful.--Goudy, F.W. Hand-press printing: a plea for a lost craft.--Updike, D.B. The outlook for typography; Rules for the mind; Style.--Focillon, H. Printing as architecture.--Mumford, L. Hand and machine.--Valéry, P. The two merits of a book.--Mardersteig, H. A lost territory regained.--Rollins, C.P. Printing at its best.--Gill, E. The two worlds of typography.--Garnett, P. The ideal book reconsidered.--Appendix I. The binding of a hand-printed book. Appendix II. A note on printers' flowers.

Call Number

*KP (Laboratory) (Garnett, P. Fine book, a symposium)

LCCN

34028789 //r983

OCLC

3698860

Author

Garnett, Porter, 1871-1951, ed.

Title

The fine book, a symposium; being divers essays and articles by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Henri Focillon, Porter Garnett ... [and others]. Edited with an introduction by Porter Garnett ...

Imprint

Pittsburgh, The Laboratory press, 1934.

Local Note

3943.

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Added Author

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Former owner

Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress)

Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

Research Call Number

*KP (Laboratory) (Garnett, P. Fine book, a symposium)