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 83
nes hadbeen designed, andpicturesque oldRomans such as theCaslon were goingout of use. Orna-ments and borderswere being discard-ed, and tl e style oftypography wasgetting uninterest-ing and losing thepersonal element. To illustrate thistransition there arereproduced fourrepresentative title-page… … DESIGN MADE WITH BRASS RULE Executed in 1879, it is one of the best specimens of the rule-curving period Queen Elizabeth page inserted in the chapter on Colo-nial typography which is perhaps the source from whichcame the long-and-short-line and catch-word styleof the average title-page of the…
Printing · Graphic design (Typography) · Advertising layout and typography
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