The practice of typography; correct composition; a treatise on spelling, abbreviations, the compounding and division of words, the proper use of figures and numerals, italic and capital letters, notes, etc., with observations on punctuation and proof-reading;
A printers' style manual by Theodore Low De Vinne, issued in New York by The Century Co. in 1910 as part of his four-volume Practice of Typography series, addressed to compositors, proofreaders and authors. The plates are black-line headbands and tailpieces: symmetrical acanthus scrollwork, beaded stems, palmette and shell cartouches, and grotesque masks and horned beasts, all usable as chapter rules, panel borders and centred ornaments.
