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<USUS>, TYPOGRAPHY, AND ARTISTS' BOOKS
Stoltz, Ulrike and Uta Schneider
Number four of the CODE(X) Monograph Series
Number four of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. This book discusses typography in relation to the fields of graphic design, applied art, and book design. With contents and text already in a book, the book designer has to choose the correct typography and a medium that provides the reader with easy access to the subject matter. This book discusses type face, type style, type weight, type size, kerning, tracking, spacing, leading, and line length.
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by Palomares, Francisco Xavier de Santiago
First edition. Forty engraved plates of calligraphic specimens. "Influential text, the result of a commission to design a more efficient national script." (Harvard/Becker 141. Bonacini 1353; Berlin 5248; Cotarelo y Mori II, 145; Palau 210612,299945). Includes engraved additional title, lacking errata leaf. Spine cracked; blank lower outer corner of letterpress title restored. With fore edge trimmed, minor soiling on some plates and plate 33 wormed and probably supplied from another copy.
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