 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 608 ページ
...without needless excrescences ; solid, without the thickening and thinning of the line, which is tha essential fault of the ordinary modern type, and which...has grown to be, owing to commercial exigencies.' (Cockerell, 'A note,' p. 3.) This is the description given by Morris himself of the type he required,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 626 ページ
...rivulets of white run down the page, and by the selection of type not too thin, too oval, or too small. ' Letter pure in form ; severe, without needless excrescences...has grown to be, owing to commercial exigencies.' (Cockerell, 'A note,' p. 3.) This is the description given by Morris himself of the type he required,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 616 ページ
...form ; severe, without needless excrescences ; solid, without the thickening and thirming of the liue, which is the essential fault of the ordinary modern...has grown to be, owing to commercial exigencies.' (Cockerell, ' A note,' p. 3.) This is the description given by Morris himself of the type he required,... | |
 | William Andrews Clark - 1921 - 184 ページ
...without the thickening and thinningoftheline,which is the essential fault of the ordinary modern type,and which makes it difficult to read; and not compressed...from which to take examples of this perfected Roman type,towit,the works of the great Venetian printers of the fifteenth century, of whom Nicholas Jenson... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1922 - 410 ページ
...1889 and 1890. " What I wanted," he wrote in the Note on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press, " was letter pure in form ; severe, without needless...from which to take examples of this perfected Roman type—to wit, the works of the great Venetian printers of the fifteenth century, of whom Nicholas... | |
 | Mergenthaler Linotype Company, William Dana Orcutt, Edward Everett Bartlett - 1923 - 284 ページ
...over," be says, "I began by getting myself a font of Roman type. And here what I wanted was letter-pure in form; severe, without needless excrescences; solid,...all later type has grown to be owing to commercial HALF TITLE: Set in 12 Point Benedictine caps; Decoration, Benedictine Complete Page Panel, Wood Base.... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1927 - 272 ページ
...the lines ; and lastly the position of the printed matter on the page. As to the type, he wanted " letter pure in form; severe, without needless excrescences;...type has grown to be owing to commercial exigencies." His models for this kind of type were " the works of the great Venetian printers of the fifteenth century,... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1902 - 422 ページ
...producing letters fine and generous in form, solid in line, without "preposterous thicks and thins," and not compressed laterally, "as all later type has grown to be owing to commercial exigencies." After he had drawn his letters on a large scale he had them reduced by photography to the working size... | |
 | Alexander S. Lawson - 1990 - 436 ページ
...adhered to the Jenson model, maintaining its original purity insofar as possible. Cloister Oldstylc (ATF) form; severe, without needless excrescences; solid,...wit, the works of the great Venetian printers of the 15th century, of whom Nicolas Jenson produced the completest and the most Roman characters from 1470... | |
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I wanted was letter pure in form; severe, without needless excrescences; solid, without the thickening and thinning of the line, which is the essential fault of the ordinary modern type, and which makes it difficult to read ; and not compressed laterally,... 
