The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type- Making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles and Prices of Plain Printing Types

Theodore Low De Vinne

Century Company, 1900 - Printing - 403 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER PAGE I The Processes of Typemaking: 9
• The Names of the Leading Sizes of Types: 53
• hi The Point System: 123
• A Font of Type: 165
• Faces or Styles of Type Oldstyle Eoman: 182
• Modern Faces of Boman Letter: 209
• vn Condensed Roman Types: 255
• Italic Types: 269
• rx Fatface or Titletypes: 281
• Blackletter: 291
• Gothic: 315
• Antique Types Bunic Celtic and Italian: 323
• The Classes and Prices of Printingtypes: 336
• Large Types Wood Types The Panto graph Bentons Punchcutting Machine: 345
• Recent Quaint Styles of Plain Type: 359

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type- Making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles and Prices of Plain Printing Types
• Author: Theodore Low De Vinne
• Publisher: Century Company, 1900
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 3, 2006
• Length: 403 pages