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, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 57
een inches, two columns to thepage, the columns containing for the most part, forty-two lines, whence the name by which the book isknown. The types in size are equivalent to the present-day twenty-point, and in style are a copy of the book-Gothic letters of the fifteenth century. The reproduction… … printed in black ink onlj-. The illuminators put a dabof red on the initial beginning each sentence, and filledall blank spaces with decoration, with which the initialsI and P are cleverly blended. Johan (jutenberg, after his printing outfit was takenby Fust, did not entirely lose heart, but again…
Printing · Graphic design (Typography) · Advertising layout and typography
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