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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 311

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identified. The Heintzemann Press device in Example 534 has an antique appearance andits designer evidently re-ceived inspiration for hisanchor, foliage and scrollfrom sucli devices as thoseof Aldus and Plantin. TheRogers - Riverside Pressmark, too, has ancient mo-tifs. The anchor-sliapedthistle,… … tlie decorative portion of the ]\IerrymountPress imprint shown as Example 537. Thisappeared at the end of the book as a colo-phon, the style in which the imprint is writ-ten fitting it for that jiosition. It will beremembered that the printers of Italy usu-ally had the beginning and ending set…

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