Books and Printing; a Treasury for Typophiles

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Instead of asking the fine press enthusiast to show his Doves Bible, his B. R. _Pierrot_, Nonesuch Dickens, or Grabhorn _Leaves of Grass_, the collector who reads about the maki...

Twenty thousand years or more separate the way of life of the Aurignacian hunters, who contributed the first pictures to the modern symposium of human communications, from the b...

The very fact that we now have windows brings into focus that we have an emergent class of semi-literate and relatively prosperous merchants and craftsmen, a class which is begi...

... a final paragraph in some manuscripts and many early printed books, giving particulars as to authorship, date and place of production, and sometimes expressing the thankfuln...

Even a mark, however, was not infallible protection. The "prince of printers," Aldus Manutius, complains that his Florentine competitors "have affixed our well known sign of the...

On 7 April 1775 there appeared in Philadelphia the initial issue of Story & Humphrey's _Pennsylvania Mercury_. This newspaper was referred to by a contemporary diarist as "The f...

[15] It well may be that this production was not a book or pamphlet but a popular card game of the educational sort. See A. T. Hazen, _A Bibliography of Horace Walpole_, p. 173,...

It would be nice if we could start with a definition of "man of the world" and a definition of "printer" but actually this small investigation is an attempt at definition. We ca...

The question of what world one chooses to recognize--that of courts and salons or of slums--arises in connection with the great printer of the nineteenth century, William Morris...

If you agree with this, you will agree with my one main idea, _i.e._, that the most important thing about printing is that it conveys thought, ideas, images, from one mind to ot...

The elements of the text-page that call for consideration may be grouped under three heads: first, _Form_ (the proportions--width to height--of the type-page and the balance of...

--Those standards, so far as I know anything about them, are what you would call academic. In the first place, book-manufacturing is not a craft, it is a business. As for standa...

--Well. More care taken with the get-up, margins, format as you call it, title pages. Real design coming into it. And much more careful about the type--legibility and all that--...

The nineteenth century saw the publisher come into his own. One of the greatest publisher-printer partnerships in the history of British book-production is that of Pickering and...

"An 'anatomy,' however precise and objective, necessarily breaks down a living entity into component parts. These parts in reality show much more cohesion than is apparent in th...

Out of all these has come something more than individual purpose and personal endeavor. Though the poorest of them have earned nothing more than pity or at best a genial toleran...

Private presses have multiplied greatly in the last thirty years, and some of them have done fine work. But the influence which they are exercising on the commercial printing of...

But this jape, and others, were part of a serious and deliberate policy. From the beginning we had a plan and hoped to have a public. In the words of our first (1923) catalogue,...

Of course it is no good the author thinking he has done everything--it is the composite whole which is so engaging. I have known some illustrators who think the author doesn't c...

An estimate of the activity of those first wooden frames can only be guessed at. In Venice alone, as early as 1472, over two million separate volumes were printed. By the openin...

NOTE: This essay towards a rationale of book-typography was first attempted as an article, s.v. "Typography," in the twelfth edition of the _Encyclopedia Britannica_ (Chicago an...

No printer, in safeguarding himself from the charge of monotony in his composition, should admit, against his better judgment, any typographical distraction doing violence to lo...

Printing, a cheaper method of reproducing books than hand-writing, came therefore just at the right moment. Since its first fine careless rapture, and in spite of the genuinely...

Once in a while a type face by some other designer seems to present an interesting movement or quality that I like. I take early opportunity to make it mine, frankly and openly,...

The conventional use of quotation marks is to place a double mark at the beginning and end of the passage quoted, with single marks for any quotations within it. In books with m...

we need only a single alphabet. it gives us practically the same result as the mixture of upper and lower-case letters, and at the same time is less of a burden on all who write...

As a matter of fact it is already too late to think in terms of revivals and reproductions. In printing, the revival habit started over a hundred years ago with Whittingham and...

I have strayed a good way from my subject, as I warned you that I might; and these remarks must appear by now to be not only ramblings but the ravings of an old reactionary who...

It has been impossible to crowd all one should like to write on this subject into these few words. If, however, this first voicing of a need for a sane concept of the relations...

In the summer of 1721, James Franklin established a newspaper, _The New England Courant_. Two years earlier he had been engaged to print the _Boston Gazette_, but with the trans...

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The marbled paper was made in the shop. A square tray or pan of slate was filled with a thin sizing of water and gum tragacanth. On its surface were gently shaken little blobs o...

In preliminary discussions of the production of _Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant_, Shaw insisted on a trade union printer. Grant Richards doubted whether a union house could do ju...

The selection of Poliphilus for Sir Francis Meynell's "Some Collectors Read" seemed appropriate in recognition of the many fine Nonesuch books he had set in English Monotype fac...

Franklin, Benjamin, 29 _Autobiography_, 366 career, 101-2; as printer, 352-67 _Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity_, 359 epitaph, 366-67 and Hall, 365 imprints, 357, 361, 364,...