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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 310

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n its original form tends to heraldic elabor-ateness. There is represented an eagle holdinga copy guide in one claw and a composing stickin tlie other. Surmounting tlie design is a griffin(eagle-lion) grasping two ink balls. The Win-tlirop Press mark (Example 513) and otherprinters* devices liave… … In Great Britain the printer whose namewould allow a pun has always been consideredfortunate. Jolin Daye, a London printer of15(jO, had an elaborate device, paneled, in thecenter of whicli is a picture of a reclining manbeing aroused by a figure which, pointing tothe sun, says, Arise, for it is…

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