Sentence examples for style of book from inspiring English sources

In England a coherent and magnificent style of book illumination was developed in the 960s in the scriptorium at Winchester.

Spain quickly evolved its own distinctive style of book, full of dignity and printed largely in black-letter types.

C. 1480 Bourges, France c. 1533 Paris, France Geoffroy Tory, (born c. 1480, Bourges, Fr. died c. 1533, Paris) publisher, printer, author, orthographic reformer, and prolific engraver who was mainly responsible for the French Renaissance style of book decoration and who played a leading part in popularizing in France the roman letter as against the prevailing Gothic.

Alternatively, go for an eclectic mix or stick to just one style of book, such as old Penguin classics.

BookLamp's public-facing product was designed to scan the writing style of books you like and suggest novels or authors with a similar feel.

Garden has been translated from Japanese to English, but it kept the right-to-left, back-to-front style of book-lookery.

Only in a very limited sense can one speak of centres of drawing in the early and High Middle Ages; that is, the scriptoria of the monasteries of Corbie and Reims in France, as well as those of Canterbury and Winchester in England, and also a few places in southern Germany, where various strongly delineatory (graphically illustrated) styles of book illumination were cultivated.

The document, written in the style of The Book of Mormon and titled "The Book of Immanuel David Isaiah," Mr. Mitchell calls himself a prophet and a "ministering angel" sent to earth to restore the Mormon Church to its proper path.

This is not an updating of the familiar Victorian and early 20th-century styling of books for boys, but books written by what Auster calls "boy writers".

Holmes has compared to the style of the book to a different language as the books are written by three separate authors.

THE NEW YORKER: Dana, two questions about the style of the book: STACEY: I'd love to hear about the different styles of writing in the book: letters, reviews, dialogue for Ada's film, etc.