Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books (1890)
Jacobi, Charles Thomas, 1853-1933. nr 99038590 · London : George Bell and Sons · leaf 109
87 MARGINS. respectively looks well, and it can be made more or less according to taste. The diagrams, figs. 66 and 67, will show the proportions worked ont. We also give a centre, or equal, margin round a page, fig. 68, for comparison with the one we suggest, fig. 69, which we contend gives a… … Fig. 70. An easy way to fix these margins, supposing the book is an octavo, is to fold the sheet into four, or quarto, and measure the length and width of two pages, as in fig. 70. Then calculate the spare margin between the arrows, and if the rule we laid down as regards proportion be adopted,…
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