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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 (1917)

Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger), 1872-1934 · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 136

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style by thereading public. The style of book typography, averagedin this way, is today far from flattering. It is rarelythat the reading pages, title-page and cover harmonize instyle and motive. On the average volume the text-pagesseem to have been set in any face that chanced to be onthe… … AVk YorkA. WESSELS COMPANYI 9 I 4 The Duke Decides CHAPTER J. The U\liiii with the fMandatc AT six oclock on a May evening, at an up-. town corner of Broadway, in New YorkCity, the bowels of the earth opened and dis-gorged a crowd of weary-faced men and womenwho scattered in all directions. They…

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