Category: Art

The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters

A primer of information regarding the history and mechanical construction of platen printing presses, from the original hand press to the modern job press, to which is added a chapter on automatic presses of small size. 51 pp.; illustrated; 49 review questions; glossary.

Chapters

11. PART X--Miscellaneous

This series of Typographic Text-books is the result of the splendid co-operation of a large number of firms and individuals engaged in the printing business and its allied indus...

1. PART I--Types, Tools, Machines, and Materials

A primer of information regarding the history and mechanical construction of platen printing presses, from the original hand press to the modern job press, to which is added a c...

7. PART VI--Correct Literary Composition

8. PART VII--Design, Color, and Lettering

A handbook of the principles of arrangement, with brief comment on the periods of design which have most influenced printing. Treats of harmony, balance, proportion, and rhythm;...

9. PART VIII--History of Printing

A primer of information about the beginnings of printing, the development of the book, the development of printers' materials, and the work of the great pioneers. 63 pp.; 55 rev...

10. PART IX--Cost Finding and Accounting

2. PART II--Hand and Machine Composition

Suggestions for the apprentice compositor in setting his first jobs, especially about the important little things which go to make good display in typography. 63 pp.; examples;...

5. PART IV--Presswork

The essential parts of a press and their functions; distinctive features of commonly used machines. Preparing the tympan, regulating the impression, underlaying and overlaying,...

3. Part II: Imposition of pages. 229 pp.; illustrated; 525 review

Elementary arithmetic applied to problems of the printing trade, calculation of materials, paper weights and sizes, with standard tables and rules for computation, each subject...

6. PART V--Pamphlet and Book Binding

Practical information about the usual operations in binding books; folding; gathering, collating, sewing, forwarding, finishing. Case making and cased-in books. Hand work and ma...

4. PART III--Imposition and Stonework