The Practice of Typography: Modern Methods of Book Composition; a Treatise on Type-setting by Hand and by Machine and on the Proper Arrangement and Imposition of PagesCentury Company, 1904 - 477 páginas |
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16 pages accents blank body book-work boxes brass rule centre chapter heading characters chase column composition compositor copy correct cross-bar dash decoration electrotype engraving face fault finger folded font foot-line galley Grace note Greek hair-line head-band illustrations inches indention initial letter inset irregular italic J. P. MAHAFFY justified keyboard large type leads leaf length lower-case machine maker-up mark matrices matter measure metal furniture method mitred mould narrow needed nonpareil notehead notes offcut ordinary paging figures paper paragraph picas pieces placed plates position prevent printed printers printing-house proof proper quadrats quoins reader reglet roman roman numerals roman type running title Scheme selected separate sheet short side side-sticks sizes slug small capitals small type solid square stems stick stoneman subheadings text type thick thin space tion title-page type-founders type-setting usually vertical width wood words
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Página 150 - Curse on him!" quoth false Sextus — " Will not the villain drown ? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town ! " "Heaven help him!" quoth Lars Porsena, " And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Página iii - Low. —The Practice of Typography Modern Methods of Book Composition a treatise on type-setting by hand and by machine and on the proper arrangement and imposition of pages by Theodore Low DeVinne, AM New York The Century Co.
Página 11 - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, - - - 1, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, Let all the Terms, A, B, C, &c.
Página 238 - We still, however, see the visible marks on the page, and we know that the acute accent ( ' ) can stand only on one of the last three syllables of a word ; the circumflex ( " ) on one of the last two ; the grave ( % ) only on the last.
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Página 119 - One hundred books famous in English literature: with facsimiles of the title-pages, and an introduction by George E. Woodberry.
Página 404 - The machine contains, as the vital element, about sixteen hundred matrices, such as are shown in Fig. 1, each consisting of a small brass plate having in one edge the female character or matrix proper, and in the upper end a series of teeth, used as hereinafter explained for distributing the matrices after use to their proper places in the magazine of the machine. There are in the machine a number of matrices for each letter and also matrices representing special characters, and spaces or quadrats...
Página vii - The book composition here to be treated is that of the ordinary book of the established publisher— the plain book made to be used and read more than to be decorated and admired as an exhibit of typographical skill.
Página 423 - The matrices thus lifted are engaged by the screws and carried forward, and as they move forward they are gradually raised by the rails until the teeth finally engage themselves on the distributor bar T, from which they are suspended as they are carried forward over the mouth of the 424 Trimming-knives magazine, until they fall into their respective channels, as shown in Figure 19.