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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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would have been. Example f41.—A title-page of classic design in ScotchRoman type. The anchor and dolphin, originally the de-vice of Aldus, as enlarged in outline has much to do withthe effectiveness of the i)age. The dignified beauty of thispage makes it worthy of close study. Example 142.—A… … NEW YORKM^CLURE, PHILLIPSAND COMPANY,M C M 1 I I EXAMPLE 141A title-page of classic design, with an Aldineanchor device. By William Aspenwall Bradley things worth wiiile, but none better than this. He notonly designed the smaller type-faces and lettered the largelines in harmony, but arranged the…

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