Author: Theodore Low De VinnePublisher:
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Category : Book design
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Book Composition
Author: Theodore Low De VinnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book design
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Book of Composition
Author: Publisher: Scholar Publishing House
ISBN: 9788171721931
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
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Selected List of Books on Business and Related Subjects in the Public Library. 1909
Author: Public Library of BrooklinePublisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1792
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Author: Keith HoustonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393241548
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
“An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics—highly recommended.”—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)—which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible—or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic (¶) and everyday (&). From the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs, figures as diverse as Charlemagne, Vladimir Nabokov, and George W. Bush cross paths with marks as obscure as the interrobang (?) and as divisive as the dash (—). Ancient Roman graffiti, Venetian trading shorthand, Cold War double agents, and Madison Avenue round out an ever more diverse set of episodes, characters, and artifacts. Richly illustrated, ranging across time, typographies, and countries, Shady Characters will delight and entertain all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.
A Documentary Account of the Beginnings of the Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology
Author: Porter GarnettPublisher:
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Category : Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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