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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 139

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f modern book composi-tion, set on the linotype in twelve-point Caslon Old Style, thelines twenty picas wide, separated by four points. The runninghead is in a black text letter suited to a book of this kind. Anamount of space equal to a line of type and the leading follow-ing it, has been placed… … CHAPTER III IN WHICH I SEE A NEW KIND OF FOG WE had bread and milk and liot gingerbreadfor supper. I noticed with satisfactionthat there was no cream on the milk. I did notlike cream when I was a little girl. Fannie isnt a cream cow, is she, CousinSally? said I, as I crumbed my bread. No, shes a…

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