The Art & Practice of Typography / A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement

by Edmund G. Gress

• A title-page of 1655, with much type display, opp. p. [19]
• First book printed in English America, p. [19]
• Title-page of a Shakespeare book, p. [20]
• First edition of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” (reset by Whittingham), p. [21]
• First issue of the London “Times,” p. [21]
• Page from a chap-book, p. [22]
• Page from “Description of Trades,” p. [22]
• French specimen of 1742, p. [23]
• Caslon types and ornaments, p. [23]
• First edition of “Paradise Lost,” p. [24]
• Two pages from “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” p. [25]
• Italian specimen of 1776, p. [26]
• Pages from Bodoni books of 1789 and 1806, p. [26]

TYPOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Page [27]

• A Morris title-page and text page, opp. p. [27]
• Page from a “Book of Common Prayer,” p. [27]
• A design of the rule-curving period, p. [28]
• Title-page of 1810, p. [28]
• Title-page of 1847, p. [28]
• Title-page of 1872, p. [28]
• Title-page of MacKellar’s “American Printer,” p. [29]
• A banquet program of 1865, p. [29]
• From a type-foundry specimen book of 1885, p. [30]
• A business card of 1865, p. [30]
• A business card of 1889, p. [31]
• Stationery composition of 1870, p. [31]
• The panel as used in 1893, p. [31]
• A neat letterhead of 1897, p. [31]
• Title-pages by Charles Whittingham, p. [32]
• Bradley’s adaptation of the Colonial style, opp. p. [32]
• A Jacobi page of 1892, p. [33]
• A Bradley page in lower-case, p. [33]
• A Bradley page in Caslon capitals, p. [34]
• A De Vinne page, p. [34]

PART TWO

(The index figures refer to the number of the example)

THE “LAYOUT” MAN

Page [35]

• Booklet cover-page laid out with pencil and crayon, [1]
• Anticipating the appearance of the printed page, [2], [3]
• Ascertaining color combination with crayons, [5], [6]
• Laying out copy for machine composition, [4-a], [4-b]
• Table for ascertaining the number of words to square inch, [7]
• Notehead set without instructions, [8]
• Business card set without instructions, [9]
• Label set without instructions, [10]
• Notehead laid out for compositor, [11]
• Business card laid out, [12]
• Label laid out, [13]
• Layout of a cover-page, [14]
• Cover-page as set from instructions, [15]
• Layout sketch for a cover, [16] (insert)
• The cover printed as indicated, [17] (insert)

HARMONY AND APPROPRIATENESS