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
Edmund G. Gress's 1917 manual of American printing, issued in New York by the Oswald Publishing Company for compositors, printers and advertising typographers. Its plates mix Art Nouveau headbands with printer's-device vignettes and ribbon scrolls, facsimiles of fifteenth-century blackletter pages with woodcut blocks, and specimen settings of type faces and advertisement layouts dash; a source of borders, ornaments, printing-trade emblems and sample alphabets.
