Applied Design for Printers / A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing

by Harry Lawrence Gage

Fig. 39. Page from Poor Richard’s Almanack, one of the best known
of the Colonial publications. Its style is typical of that period.

Fig. 40. Illustrating the period of transition from the true Colonial
style. Type and material are obviously improved in mechanical
qualities, but the compositor must have been seeking
for “something new” in typography.

Fig. 41. Showing a typical title page composed at the beginning of the
decline of typography in America. During almost the entire 19th Century
there was neither reason nor design in most of the printing produced.