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
A 1917 trade manual by Edmund G. Gress, published in New York by the Oswald Publishing Company for working printers and advertising compositors, tracing printing history and modern type arrangement. Its 245 plates reproduce medieval manuscript hands, incunabula pages, Kelmscott-style borders and initials, and specimen layouts, supplying alphabets, ornament, and page-composition models for reuse.
