Books and Printing; a Treasury for Typophiles

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
There are some characters quoted in the text that cannot be reproduced in the text version of the book.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
Not all the font families used for the different articles included in the book were availabe for the HTML version. The font families that could be used for the transcription are Times New Roman, Gill Sans, Garamond, Bodoni MT (instead of Bodoni Book), Baskerville, Centaur, Perpetua and Bell. Most of the currently available browsers are compatible with those fonts. However, it is not certain that the currently available hand-held devices would be able to reproduce the text with those fonts.
Punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected. Nevertheless, there are some portions where the author quotes text written in ancient style in which the punctuation rules applicable nowadays were not followed. Those have been left unchanged.
FORUM BOOKS
This ebook was created in honour of Distributed Proofreaders 20th Anniversary.
edited by Paul A. Bennett
Forum Books THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK
A FORUM BOOK Published by The World Publishing Company 2231 West 110th Street, Cleveland 2, Ohio
Revised Edition
First Forum printing February 1963