The Practice of Typography.: Modern Methods of Book Composition. A Treatise on Type-setting by Hand and by Machine and on the Proper Arrangement and Imposition of Pages. - Hardcover
Synopsis
Excerpt from Modern Methods of Book Composition: A Treatise on Type-Setting by Hand and by Machine, and on the Proper Arrangement and Imposition of Pages
In a book previously published the literary side of type-setting was treated under the title of Correct Composition. This book, its intended supplement, will be confined to comments upon the mechanical methods of Book Composition.
In ordinary conversation this phrase is undiscriminatingly applied to composed types in small pages, whether plain or decorated, of four leaves or of forty volumes. So considered, the subject seems almost limitless. It must be evident that there are too many kinds of books and too many fashions in type-setting to be thoroughly described in an ordinary duodecimo.
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