EXAMPLE 148
Where a French style of treatment is appropriate. Designed by Bruce Rogers
There is a rule that the running title should be separated from the type-page by space equivalent to a quad line of the size of body-type used, altho the best typographers prefer only about half that amount of space.
Pages containing chapter headings are lowered at the head below the regular page hight. Example [127] shows a lowering of five picas space. Other books show more or less than this amount of space, but the space allowed in this example is pleasing.
When an initial is used the space between it and the type should be the same, both at the right side and foot of the initial.
The position of a book page should be toward the binding and the head. In elaborate books of wide margins this inclination should be great, but in the conventional book of narrower margins it should be less noticeable—say six points toward the binding and eighteen points toward the head.
The use of an em-quad between sentences on a book page is encouraged by many printers, but the new-thought compositor uses two three-to-em spaces or less. By referring to example [127] it will be found that the same amount of space separates all words in one line. The capital letter seems sufficient indication of the beginning of a sentence. In the first book printed from separate types (see reproduction of page from Gutenberg’s Bible in the chapter on “The Origin of Typography”) there was no space used between sentences, the period in the judgment of the printer separating the words sufficiently.
EXAMPLE 149
Title-page lettering and decoration by F. W. Goudy, for the Caxton Co., Cleveland, O.
