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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 225

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he rule border contrasts with the white ofthe background and the black of the illustration. The grayeffect of the type group is a harmonizing factor thatsoftens the contrasts. Only one face of type—CloisterOldstyle—is used, and that of a size that makes it possiblefor the business man to read the… … EXAMPLE 360 A blotter arrangement suggestive of an architectural panel THE BLOTTER 133

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