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A TREATISE ON
TITLE-PAGES
THE PRACTICE OF TYPOGRAPHY
A TREATISE ON
TITLE-PAGES
WITH NUMEROUS
ILLUSTRATIONS IN FACSIMILE
AND SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE EARLY
AND RECENT PRINTING OF BOOKS
BY
THEODORE LOW DE VINNE, A.M.
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1902
Copyright, 1902, by
Theodore Low DeVinne
Published October, .
PART III
CRITICAL
XV The Pickering Title. The Squared Title 351
XVI The Chap-Book and its Outgrowths . 369
XVII Kelmscott Typography . 387
XVIII French Title-Pages . . 403
XIX Lettering : Plain, Grotesque, and Artistic 417
XX A Title-Page in Ten Styles . . .449
Index , , ... 461
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE COLOPHON page
Colophon of the Psalter of 1457 . 2
Introduction to Bible of Forty-two Lines. Gutenberg 4
Colophon of the Catholieon of 1460. Mainz. Gutenberg 6
Xenophon, 1511. Bartholomew Trot . . 8
De Veritate, etc., Venice, 1480. Nicolas Jenson . 8
A Supplement, Venice, 1483. Franz Eenner . 9
Poggio, Antwerp, 1487. Matthew Goes . 9
De Veritate, etc., Venice, 1480. Nicolas Jenson 10
Cornelius Nepos, Venice, 1471. Nicolas Jenson . 11
Roberto de Litio, Venice, 1472. Franz Eenner . 12
Petrarch, Padua, 1472. Valdezocchio . . 13
Trithemius, Mainz, 1515. John Schoeffer . . 14
Boccaccio, Bruges, 1476. Colard Mansion . . . 16
Compendium, Bordeaux, 1524. John Guyart . 17
Arte of English Poesie, London, 1589. Puttenham . 18
TITLES IN BLACK-LETTER
Cranmer's (or Great) Bible, London, 1540 116
First Book of Moses, London, 1530. Quentell . 117
Common Prayer, London, 1549. Whitchurch . 119
Common Prayer, New York, 1893. De Vinne Press 120
Title of Albert Dilrer, Nuremberg, 1538 122
Sassenspegel, Augsburg, 1516. Othmar 123
Early German type, Mainz, 1486. Rewick . 124
The Luther Bible, Wittenberg, 1541 . 125
A German Typographia, Nuremberg, 1733 126
Theuerdank, Augsburg, 1517. Schoensperger 127, 130
German Typographia, Leipsic, 1745. Gessner 128
German initials of the seventeenth century . 129
Mechaniek Exercises, London, 1683. Moxon 131
Parisian Typography, London, 1818. Greswell . . 132
Philobiblon, De Bury, New York, 1889. Grolier Club . 134
Book of Hours, Paris (1512?). Kerver . . 135
Xll Illustrations
PAGE
....
Reynard the Pox, London, 1845
Le Faust de Goethe, Paris, 1899 ....
. 137
138
OENAMBNTBD TITLES
Cursive Pran5oise, Paris, 1556. Granjon . . 140
Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie, London, 1666. Crooke 142
Batarde Bris6e, Paris, 1644. Moreau . . 143
A Writing-master's title, London. Leokey 145
Lucan, Paris, 1512. Le Rouge 146
Presentation plate, London, 1829. Whittingham 148
Julia, etc., London, 1795. Roach . 149
Dissertatio, etc., Leipsic, 1710. Gleditsch 151
Wurdtwein's Bibliotheca, Augsburg. Burglen 152
Poetry of Nature [London, not dated] . 154
A flourished title, New York, 1853 155
CONDENSED TYPES
A modern French title, Rouen, 1846 . . .181
A title in condensed type, New York, 1860 .... 183
Savarin's Physiology of Taste, Paris 185
Improper use of condensed type .... 186
An Italian title, Milan, 1861 187
Improper mating of discordant types . . . 188
Illustrations xiii
PAGE
Benjamin Franklin, New York. Harper & Brothers 189
Illustrations of condensed types . . . 190
KELMSOOTT TYPOGRAPHY
The Golden type of William Morris 389
The Troy type of William Morris . . • . 391
Engraved title of Historyes of Troye, Morris . 395
Composition of capital letters in a book by Morris . . 396
Composition of capital letters in a title by Pollard 397
xvi Illustrations
PAGE
Poems by the Way, London, Morris
1891. .... 399
Colophon and device of William Morris .... 400
FBENCH TITLE-PAGES
La Rochefoucauld, Paris. Gamier Prferes . . 402
French methods of displaying words .... 403-406
Dictionnaire, Paris, 1853. Didot Fr^res 407
Nouveau Manuel, Paris, 1852. Didot Fr^res 409
French method of display . 410
Rousseau's La Nouvelle H61oise, Paris, 1831. Pourrat 411
French method of displaying words . 414
Notions de Typographic, Paris, 1888 415
American methods of displaying words 416
HISTORICAL
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4 Early books without title-pages
mrt&irtblonteifroe*
From an edition of Xenophon.i
Bartholomew Trot, 1511.
cer.
BAR.de VaUc.paWuns.F.F.
Mardnus de fepcem arboribus Prutenus,
M.CCCC.LXXII.
*DlEVI.NO
VEN
BiRS.
From an edition of Petrarch, i Valdezoeehio, Padua, 1472.
The present chronicle was the year 1452. This result, how-
printed and completed in the ever, was not attained without
year of our Lord 1515, on the the aid and the many indis-
eve of Margaret the Virgin, in pensable improvements of Peter
the noble and famous city of Schoeffer of Gemsheim, his
Mainz, the first inventress of workman and adopted son, to
this art of printing, by John whom, in fitting recognition of
Schoeffer, grandson of the late these labors and many discov-
worthy John Fust,' citizen of eries, he also gave in marriage
Mainz, the chief originator of his daughter Christine. Now
the said art. It was in the year the two just mentioned, John
of the birth of our Lord 1450, Fust and Peter Schoeffer, kept
in the thirteenth Indiction, dur- this art a secret, binding all their
ing the reign of the illustrious workmen and servants by an
Roman Emperor Frederick III, oath not to make the process
the most Reverend Father in known in any way. From the
Christ, Theoderic, Cup-bearer year 1462, however, it was car-
of Erbach and Prince Elector, ried by these same workmen intO'
being Archbishop of Mainz, that different countries of the world,
Fust at length began by his own and made no slight advance.
unaided genius to devise and ex- With the grace and privilege of
periment upon a method of print- the Imperial Majesty, and at
ing. This, with the help of di- the bidding and expense of the
vine grace, he perfected and worthy John Haselberg of Rhei-
applied to practical purposes in nau in the diocese of Constance.
16 Fondness for fantastic forms
01 ci a rittftmcetot; % fK>u»
lip
DenDfutn23uroe89
le.etftnitumDecims
iiona€)ctobif6* 31nn6
Oomtnt^ileCtmoqui
Sfeeamo:DfgeUmo
quarto.HiDlauDf
OeiomnipotS
tt0ettuue«
numtict
itratS
2
The Euiie or ThcTri-
aoglctO' ThcSquareor The Pillafier.
The Loiange fpindle.called quadrangle or CiUmdct
Tncquct
called Rombus Romboides
Theegge Thel-ozange
ThcTapet The Rodel The Lozange
diTpUycd tabbatcd
difplayed leuerfcd
rcoeried
Fwc
Sound
O Htrft
Sbnl I" "«»
Tmar »*« /<•«•
r./«&
H.,* n»J. i" /fem//«.
O en « "^
mc»
query, Why
should the very important page that
contained colophon and device be put at the end
of the book,i where it cannot be readily inspected ?
foplfcitfcriptu^fupa-tcrti o fententta;
rom editum a frflffc (wnngpnneioali
jB tratrum rrnos poctore ibritt^nio
ft
"ecomntumtb eologprnm^j^rpcTTlpgr
qetdlentin iitmmT^tbeotogu ogflg"..
(flaueoco.
From the Super Tertio Sententiarum of John Duns Scotus.^
colophon is not yet out of fashion der and at the expense of John of
in England it is the printer of
: Cologne, Nicolas Jenson & Com-
a book who puts his name at the pany. In the year of our Lord
end of the work it is the pub-
; fourteen hundred and eighty-
hsher who goes to the front. In one. To God the praise." In his
America, the name of the printer Venetian Printing Press (p. 15)
is usually on the back of the title- Brown says that Jenson was then
page, which also contains the a member of two distinct pub-
notice of copyright. lishing-houses.
Imperfections of the device 25
though it incompletely
answered this purpose.
To adapt it to a changed Device of Jenson.
size of leaf, some print- (See opposite page.)
ers had it reengraved,
cutting it larger or smaller; but it was a com-
moner practice to add strips and pieces of decorar
tive bordering to a small device to make it of the
26 Devices of patchwork
A pressman
interior of the early priating-offlee.
and a woman compositor are near a printing-press,
which has on its wood cross-beam the Latin words
" Prelu Ascesianu," or the printing-press of Ascen-
sianus. At the foot of the page is the imprint,
with the advertisement, Sold in the printing-house
of Ascensianus. Here we notice the first steps to-
ward the fashioning of the modern title-page the ;
VacnundanturxnOffiana Afcenfiana*
Device of Aldus Manutius, in the Statius of 1502.
g>x<a6>Y<55a5aE3^^
s ^^^^YvryvYYXTmwxyv^
m^^s^^ix^mx^^f^^s'^.
Device of William Caxton. Eeduced facsimile.
Wita omnia
cum
pipoiuin t poetarum
pbtlofo^
aactotitatitous t fentetds
aureie eoiundon mnejcie*
REG NAVI,T'CHAVD1BRE •
EX OFFICINA HENRICI
Stcphani Parifienfis typographi.
AN. M. D. LVII.
An early device of
Pickering. A later device of Pickering.
are graceful.
Ill
TITLES WITH
ENGRAVED BORDERS
IRHARDUS RATDOLT, from
Augsburg, G-ermany, obtains
distinction as the maker of
the earliest book with printed
decoration on the title-page.
This book, the Calendar of
Johannes Begiomontanus, was
published at Venice in 1476,
in which city Ratdolt prac-
tised his craft for ten years after. The words in
this graceful border are not in the usual form of
a title, for they introduce and commend only, but
they pass for a title because they specify the place,
date, and names of the makers of the book.
Ratdolt is also honored for the elegance of his
initial letters in other books, and for the brighter-
colored inks he made for their greater decoration.
44 Earliest book with engraved first page
/-\v,
iVteUiMibaed-.MntHetKiadatuni ^
X Vc'Cenalutend.mo quod VC : aacctifhid opus.
;
BernifduspiaordcAiigufti
Petrus laOan de Lingencen
^^
,^^5
EAiidusnidoledeAuguaa ^2?s
^^ri^'
iftottuliiaamme
cumaliis ^plunmt8o:9riotti
bus piifh'ite trnpzeflioiuru'
peradditistvctabulamut
buius calccannecam iit
ttiSripatStJlTuttner^*
laco:onadoncopacllapb:cl
famofo poctajoanocasena:
CO otrae coplas anadtdas ala
fm fecl?a8 po: d mcTmo pocta>
BORDERS OF
FLOWERS OR RULES
ilOODCUTS of merit for title-
pages that required expert
engravers could not be made
in small towns for the cheap
books that abounded in the
seventeenth century. With-
out their aid, the engraved
title-page was an impossibil-
ity. The absence of an en-
graved design was always regretted, for printers
then believed that a title-page was unpleasingly
inferior if it did not have a device, or at least an
engraved border, to make it properly attractive.
Some type-founders tried to supply this want with
the ornaments then known as flowers, which were
founded in type-metal and made in small pieces
that could be readily combined to suit any length
76 Type-founders imitated copperplate
m^nMa^
POUR
fervir de fuite au Traite
De rOrigine & des produciions de
v^ PAR
M. FOURNIER LE JeUNE. PP
w
^9
5^
w
De rimprimerie de J. B ar B o U.
I
82 Rule borders hard to register
S?€^
t; — > S? i» ^ > ®
"'5^'' ^. .„ _ \.^'J>^
K^ OB THE ^^
iF«<lnCS._;
INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT I
of the
i ORIGIN OF PRINTING.
i¥ with
'.t A Series of
"nJ^y Burt
B? J. JOHNSON, Printrr.
BImI InveBlJon, lo Ood alone ihc prmltal
Pot gifiing mu thU noble An \o mltp ;
Protn tlicf irbal bencBli do men poMett T
The Polpit, Bar, knd Sta^ all now ceofni
Trace Iha HUtoria p*);e and view the linr.
Before Ihoa eltiieri our nallve clime ;
Tb* want oT thee kept Arii and Comnipreeltiie
Without Ihj aid, how liltle coDid we know t
Thou irt the meant by which we lain tedrcu.
Our NallonVbolwark U, Tk» Bnlitk Fr—t
ItCopluid^l
^ ,^ ;i«i;:ii2i«i:;ni:».i;>s:- «-
is>s;ii:>i;>i:'»*t:>*ri
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@@
WVquVb
'5^' iPubltibed by Messrs. LoDRinui, Hant, \^^ Richsrd
| :
deWorde :^> Reel, Orme, Brown tt Green, Pftter- 1}^:
f-
— I
I noatcr Row, London. -"- PrnsoD.
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:"«:»i::K»Oit>OH:a'c:i-cT"^>cx:i-i:a-::>-::::-.Uf':>c«-in>-::'"! r
Borders were reluctantly abandoned 85
SPEECH O F
fiuriptd, HiccciJ.
LO N HON, V
Pcinced in the Ycare, 1544. „^,^ Jf
I^nki-lf il!^
Reduced facsimile.
SIConfideraiions and PropofalsU
^ In Order co the f»
Regulation |
I OF THE
«| §5
«i
m
li
PRESS:! TOGSraER WITH g
^ Diverfe Infiaitcet of Treafonout, and J
SI Seditious Tamfhkts, Proving the »
^ Ntcefiiij thereof. |»
2 H
™ Br i
S Roger L'Estrange. g
i9»
,
i
[LONDOAT, Printed by A.C.Jmef^
M.DC.LXnL H
Reduced facsimile.
Suggestions for borders of brass rules 89
RESTRAINT On the
PRESS
Is inconfiftent with the Proteftant Re-
ligion, and dangerous to the Liber-
ties of the Nation.
LONDON;
Printed by J. Darbj, and fold by Jndr. 'Bell at the
Crofs-Keys and Bible in Cornhil. MDCXCVIII.
Reduced facsimile.
^^^
•--
k Modern rule borders of brass with i
corners. Keduoed.
92 Suggestions for borders of brass rules
PARAGRAPH
AND BASTARD TITLES
N the year 1470 Arnold Ther
Hoernen of Cologne printed
a little book with its custom-
ary introduction at the head
of a page of which the larger
portion was entirely blank.
This introduction, set as a
paragraph in the small type
of the text, is unusually ver-
bose, yet does not give the name or place of the
it
title,
^
Bastard title printed by John Pruss at Strasbvirg in 1486.
ORTHOGRAPHIA ETFtHJCVJOre
CTIOMVM GRAECARVM 0=
M N IVM APVO STArrVM
CVMACCENTl B.ET G E
KERIBEX VARUS
vTRrvsQveLrK
C V AE AV=
TORIB.
«
Bastard title to Statins. Venice, 1502.
COMENTA
RH DI.C.IVLIO CESARETRADOTTI
^
E T
Bellum lugurthinum.
o
>
H
M
w W
H O
> ft
H
-<
5S
I, V G D V N I,
ne refertus y ac nunc
brimum tn lucent
editus,
3S
les enfans.
A PARIS
Dc L'mprimatc de Rob.Efliene Imprimeur du R07.
M. D. XLIIII.
Auecpriuilegedu Roy.
Reduced facsimile.
ttERODlANI HISTORIAE DE
IMPERIO POST MARCVM,
VEL DE SVIS TEMPORIBVS,
E' GRAECO TRANSLATAE,
ANGELO POLITIANO IN-
TERPRET E.
P A R I S I I S
M. D. X L I I I I.
108 Early practice in paragraph titles
raphy. He was not content to did not tolerate capitals for the
acceptalltheteachingsof Aldus; first letters in the sentences that
he had a respect for mannerisms followed in the same paragraph,
of copyists who preceded print- He spaced closely, abbreviated
ei's which our modern reformers freely, used italic profusely, and
of printing have hitherto neg- often put the period after a date
lected. Following some copy- in arable figures. These manner-
ists, he selected capital letters isms are shown in a facsimile on
for the first letters of proper page 36 of i 'orrect Cmnposition.
names, and for some that are 2 See page 35.
A DISSERTATION UPON ENGLISH
TYPOGRAPHICAL FOUNDERS
AND FOUNDERIES.
Reduced facsimile.
110 Paragraphs in displayed titles
PARISIIS
Apud Simonem Colinaum
112 Meanness of many early title-pages
TITLES IN BLACK-LETTER
S SOME titles in previous
chapters are in black-letter,
additional illustrations are
not needed to show manner-
isms of early composition,
but attention has to be called
to the various styles of types,
now grouped under the gen-
eral name of black-letter,
Vo?2)Sa6c^J>efg5ifPmnopqr|"«tuow)5'v?
itmicmicm^ojcm mpfiicnc|(^3Zi)
« 7 4 5.
Eediieed facsimile.
Flourished initials of Germany 129
LONDON.
Printed for Jofeph Moxon on the Weft-
fide of Fleet-ditcht at the Sign of
Atlas. 1^83.
Eeduoed facsimile.
ANNALS
OP
CONTAINIMO
AN ACCOUNT
H^^xi^X
NOTICES AND ILLUSTBATIONS
PRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIES. LONGMAN AND CO.; LACKINGTON AMD CO
R (I EVANS. AND J AND W LOWNDRS, BOOKSELLERS.
Reduced faesiniile.
Becent forms of black-letter 133
tl^ersioneSlnjxUcanemonetJproUs
Sommi09llinotationit)usque9[u]cit
^ 9ntJrea3jFlfmins?[S!aest 4$,
II ® Pars ^wmas'Cfrtus ® ||
^®>caSa8iuuan8u,fjmefc(Kna.g^'??S?o'?nL"°
iciif eraf .'Tc. ftp'. "W"* '««> cuora
-'^
oeeciculjr.
21 rmotoneH ^olosae
of tj^e iHtliDIe 9lg.t,
tqfxeibmt'O m
Hongmantf, Eontlon.
in.tccc.ilb.
be
31lMstvatiou&
Parts,
(E&ouarb Pelleton, €biteut,
125, Soiilecacb 5mnt-(Sennain, U5>
1899
Original printed in three colors. Eeduced facsimile.
Decorations for black-letter 139
ORNAMENTED TITLES
RINTING began in a period
of extravagant decoration.
To look at the engraved por-
traits of themagnates of the
fifteenth and sixteenth cen-
turies and note the laces and
ruffs, the silks and velvets,
worn by men and women, is
to be convinced that simpli-
city was not then in fashion. There were some
printed books of this period which were decorated
as profusely as the garments, but the decoration
was restricted to the bindings of the books of the
wealthy. Asumptuous decoration of books was
not attainable by typography. If title-pages could
have been illuminated by any mechanical or semi-
mechanical process, we may be sure that they would
have glowed with gold and bright color but the
;
English engraved title. Keduced facsimile.
Siux Qrandj dc t&Jtat.
(^ENMAN^HIR
Inftructive and Entertaining:
POCKET-COPY-BOOKa
For the PraC T I CE of You TH in the
\^
LONDON;
Reduced facsimile.
10
ftrhdid anuotationc
(XarSTvni'phdvfilii: wmftamiuirt attfj
pttndeponfe txd'bntgtnfisqudfinguUntm Icitionumftnt^
ft«:velmtntmi( hifiodo^afhta titfottictstjr^atlis factlt ato
tifatnt.
gnwm fmcti^tirtinu
A title by Le Rouge.
Script type of Bobert Granjon 147
or ^dven^ires of a
On tlie^L I A B) of Homer
On tlie OJiTSSJE'T of HoDaeip
abed e f a fi t j k I
GERMANIC MIRACVLO
OPTIMO, MAXIMO,
EARVMQVE DIFFERENTIIS,
DISSERTATIO,
Q_yA S I M VL
ARTIS TYPOGRAPHICiE
VNIVERSAM RATIONEM EXPLICAT
PAVLVS PATER, PP.
Proftat L I P S I ^,
Apud ]O.FRIDER.GLEDITSCH ET FILIVM.
AVNO M.DCC. X.
Reduced facsimile.
BIBLIOTHECA
OGUNTINA L 1 B R I S
SjECULO PRIMO TYPOGRAPHICO
MOGUNTIi^E
IMPRESSIS INSTRUCT4,
HINC INDE
ADDITA INVENTS TYPOGRAPHIiE
HISTORIA,
STEPHANO ALEXANDK.O WtJRBTWEISr,
ErlSCOrO HEUOFOLENSr , SUFFRACANEO WOKMATIENSL
" B g 83=
AVaVSTM VINDELlCORVm,
IMPENSis CHRISTOPH. FRIDERICI BURGLEN.
M DCC LXXXVII.
Reduced facsimile.
Ornamental types made with difficulty 153
^ COMPBtSIHG,
a c tH e 3R.
Reduced facsimile.
BTSRfiRBBn,
)iir8siir®i¥
(
(((?^he"chStian^famii¥^5)^ )
^^^^'G^SO'^^^
ters that had to be used for the text and for minor
lines of the title. They were much esteemed in
France, Spain, and Italy, and may be found in the
books of the present time. In
title-pages of serious
England the ornamental types selected for title-
pages were rarely fantastic, and they were used
with greater discretion.
VIII
DE LA LIBRAIRIE.
Ou Ton voit fon origine&fonprogr^s,
jufqu'en 1689.
n^^
D I VN 1
IWENALIS
SATYRS.
PARISIIS.
p TYPOGRAPHIA REGIA
M. DC. XLIV.
160 Coarseness of typographic title-pages
L VT E T I AE
M. D. XL v.
form of title had been too curt, the new form was
often so long that the added matter had to be ar-
ranged in distinct paragraphs.
Compositors of that time believed that a title
could not be of good form if it did not have at least
AT LONDON
Printed by Richard Field, dwelling In the
black-Friers, jicere Ludgate.
i585>.
Reduced facsimile.
HISTORIE
OF THE WORLD:
Commonly called,
LONDON,
Printed by z/fdam Ijlipjmd are to be fold by hhit
^ptoni/,inhj'lane3tthe Signeof
ibeCiw. <))•'
Reduced facsimile.
166 Old preference for capital letters
Common Prayer,
A?id Adminijlration of the
SAC RAMENTS,
AND OTHER
RITES and CEREMONIES
O F T HE
PSALTER o R
PSALMS of DAVID,
Pointed as they are to be Jung or faid in Churches.
CAMBRIDGE,
Printed by JOHN BASKERVILLE, Printer to the Univerfiiy,
by whom they are fold, and by B. DO t), Bookfeller,
in Ave-Mary Lane, London. MDCCLX.
[Price Six Shillings and Six Fence, unbound.)
Reduced facsimile.
C A T U L L I,
T I B U L L I,
E T
PROPERTII
OPERA.
BIRMINGHAM! AE:
Typis JOHANNIS BASKERVILLE.
MDCCLXXII.
Reduced facsimile.
Improprieties of early display 169
Typographiis
ERVDITORVM
CENTFRIA
Speciminis loco
colled:a
a
Johanne Comado Zeltnero
Norimb. Paftore Alcenthan-
nenG &E.A.V.
NORIMBERG^,
Sumtibus&Typis
Adami Jonathan. Felfeckerit
Anno M D CC XVL
A
IN TWO VOLUMES.
By the Rev. M. M A D A N.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR.
AND SOLD AT T. BECKET'S, BOOKSELLER TO HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,
PALL-MALL.
M. Dec. LXXXIX.
Kedueed facsimile.
172 Ornamental dashes formerly in favor
typographilchen
Seltenheiten
nebft
Beytragen
zur Erfindungsgefchichte
der
Buchdruckerkunfl:.
Erfte Lieferung.
BeiErofnungderUniverfitatsbibliothek zu Mainz
herausgegeben
von
Gotthelf Fischer
Professor'n und Bibliothecar'n, Mitgliede des phyfikal'isch-
niathematischen CoUegiums der Aerzte zu Basel, der phy-
sikalischen Gesellschaft zu Gottingen und der Linneischen
Gesellschaften zu London und Leipzig; der philosoma-
tischen und der medicinisch nacheifernden Gesellschaften in
Paris, der bocanischen Gesellschaft in Regensburg und
der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu lena Corre-
spondenten
A PARAPHRASE
ON
PART OF THE BOOK OF JOB;
AND
THE LAST DAY,
J POEM.
By EDWARD YOUNG, l. l. d.
WITH THE
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
LONDON:
Printed for T. Wills, Stationers-Court
J. S. JorcUiv, No. 166, FItil-Snetl ; Allen mj Wijt,
and H. D.. Symtnds^ Pntermjlir'Rawi
Qhnmpnnte itnd Wittrarw, Aldgate ;
uidL. Woyland, Nfai Yorli,
CONDENSED TYPES
GREAT change was made in
title-pages when the time-
honored form of roman capi-
tal letter was supplanted by
the tall and thin types known
to English-speaking printers
as " condensed." ^ The new
shape, first made for its own
some unverified
title-pages at
date by the Didot printing-house of Paris, was
sparingly used by the printers of England and the
United States before 1840. It came in favor when
1 The earliest compressed form of legibility. A series of book
of rom an lower-case known to me types in this style is to be seen
was made by Fleischmann of the in the specimens shown by Four-
Ensched^ type-foundry in the nier in his Manuel Typogra-
year 1734, and this form was then phlque of 1776, where they are
"
favored hy aU publishers who de- described as in the HoUandish
sired to put much reading mat- style. " In the same book is also
ter in a small space without loss exhibited a series of still thinner
!
12
178 Condensed letter designed by Didot
made types for its own use only, 1 One liberty led to another.
and published no specimen of A French founder tried the ex-
this face, the date of its first ap- periment of reducing the angu-
pearance is not on record. In larity of a few roman capitals by
1839 the Didot house sold its giving to their pointed ends the
type-foundry to the Fonderie G6- curved form of some of the round
n^rale, which published a thick letters of the lower-case, as will
volume of specimens in 1843. In be seen in the Italian title-page
this volume appeared fifteen presented on page 187. This new
bodies (corps 10 to corps 56) of fashion had imitators in Italy as
new condensed two-line types in France, but it was not of long
with thick stems and sharp hair- life in Paris, nor was it ever ac-
lines under the name of Initiales cepted in England or America.
Serrfes. This exhibit was fol-
lowed by an extra-elongated se- IMAVMW^oZdedlid'
ries (corps 12 to corps 56) called ings, like these from the foundry
Initiales AUongfes. of G. Peignot of Paris, were first
The specimen-book for 1843 ot made by Mallet-Heldoom, who
the Fonderie G^n&ale is the first establislied a foundry at Paris in
in which a. series of condensed 1825. Sixteen bodies (corps 10
letters was exhibited, but the to corps 64) are shown in the
reading public had seen them specimen-book (dated 1864) of his
occasionally in the titles of the son and successor A. M. Mallet
Didotbooks. For information in fils aln^. Several founders have
this and next note I am indebted copied them. They are seldom
to Mr. Henry J. Tucker of Paris. used now for title-pages.
180 Rules observed hy type-founders
CHIMIE ELEMENTAIRE
APPLIQUEES
PAR M. J. GIRARDIN,
Proresseur dc cliiiiiie a I'Ecole municipale el k I'Ecole d'agricuUure de Rouen ,
TROisiEME Edition,
KEVDB, COKRIOEE ET ADCMENTUE,
PREMIERE PARTIE.
C.HIAIIE INOKGANIQUE.
A ROUEN,
CHEZ l.-S. LEFEVRE, IMPRIMEUR,
nUE DBS CARMES, 20.
1846.
Reduced facsimile.
182 Obscurity of extra-condensed type
wide and others are thin, and the stems are hud-
dled or show gaps of white space at meeting-points,
the composition becomes unpleasing and is rela-
tively harder to read.
The condensed types first made were about one
fourth narrower than types of standard form, tall,
slender, and graceful of light face, with thin stems,
;
LITERATURE
OF TB£
SOUTH OF EUROPE;
J. C. L. SIMONDE DE SISMONDI:
OP THS -ACADEUT AMD BOCIETT OF ARTS Or GENEVA,
HOKORART HESBIR 07 THE UmVERSlTT Or WILNA, or THE ITALIA!) ACASEUT,
ETC. ETC.
VOL. I.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS!
329 & 381 PEARL STREET,
FRAMKLIH SQUARE.
1860.
184 Limitations of condensed type
--\".\
Reduced facsimile.
186 Unwise spacing of condensed types
JANE EYRE;
%n 3(iutobiogt:a)it)p.
The first lines of a title of 1855.
MAGNETISMO ANIMALE
•
DESONTO
DALLE Plil ACCREDITATE OPERE MAGNETICHE
CONTENENTB
1.0 Storia del Uagnetismo — 2.° Sua Teoria
,
AGGIUNTOVI
LE TAVOLE SEMOYENTI
ED I MIRACOLI DEL SECOLO DECIMONONO,
oTvaro
LA MAGI A NUOVA,
It Sltrii I
Ii CiMlalaoem , ed il modo di cptrsre il VagDetiimi
dieti nperienze, domtsde e riipoile, il pentiero e I'^TVC&in,
religionce morale, eee. eec.
ton an'^ppen^ice
loterno ad tlcoDfi ptd re««iai leopirto
lUneDtl ! Migacljjma.
MILANO
LUIGI CIOFFI, CONTR. DE' MORONI, N, 4118.
TOBIIVO I
MIIjANO
(fUllljIilIe)U CONTERNO, librajo I llbnjd G. CIOPFl (l. tilt^O.i, 1)
1861.
Reduced facsimile.
188 A selection of unmatable types
A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION
OF
m THE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY;
WITH A NARRATIVE OF
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
62 CI. IFF STREET.
190 Declining use of condensed types
IS READABLE
IN PROPORTION BUT NOT SO READABLE
PRACTICAL
13
THE MODERN TITLE-PAGE
PREPARATION OP COPY
REGULAR DIVISIONS OF THE TITLE-PAGE
ESTIMATE OF SPACE REQUIRED
PLANNING A TITLE-PAGE
LITERATURE OF EUROPE
IN THE FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH CENTUKIES.
BV
" Dc modo aDtem hujusmodi bivtone conacTlbeDds, Iliad ImprimlB monemus, ul materia et copla ejus, non
venim eliam per sin^lss annornm eemnrias, aut eilam minora iDtcrTBlta,
toniorn ab hiatoriis ei crilicis pelalur,
eeriatim libn prscipui,qui eo temporis epauo conaciipii aunt, in conalliam adbibeintur ; at ex eonmi noD
perlecuone (Id enlm inOniium quiddam esaet), sed d eg uses none, et obeervaiione argameotl, styll, mettaodi,
gemuB illtus temporifl liicrarias, veluii iDcaniaiioDe qdadaoi, a moituis eToceti]T.''-~BAC0R, de Augm- Scitnt.
IN TWO VOLDKES.
VOL. L
NE W-YORK:
PUBLIS,HED BY HARPER & BROTHERS,
NO. 82CI.1FF-STBEKT.
1841
Reduced facsimile.
198 Alleged had taste of compositors
THE CAMPAIGN
IN RUSSIA
DURING THE
YEAR 181S.
BY
SIR ROBERT KER PORTER.
HARTFORD:
pvbi.ishs:d bv axdrus, starr & co.
LOOMIS it ElOHABDS, PEINTEE8, MIDDLETOWN.
1814.
200 Why title-pages do not please
THE
SUPERFICIES, GRADATION,
and PROPERTIES
O F
LONDON.
Printed for J. Scott, at the Black Swan, in raler-noJler-Rm.
['7551
Eedueed facsimile.
THE
printer's (Grammar
A DESCRIPTION OF THE SORTS, SIZES AND USES OF
METAL TYPES
MADE FOR MANY LANGUAGES, INCLUDING
3^ractical ^^rintmg
WITH DIRECTIONS TO AUTHORS HOW TO PREPARE
COPY AND TO CORRECT THEIR OWN PROOFS.
FOR THE SERVICE OF ALL WHO HAVE
ANY CONCERN WITH PRINTING.
BY
JOHN SMITH, Regiom.
LONDON
PRINTED FOR J. SCOTT,
AT THE BLACK SWAN IN
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EMINENT PRINTERS
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ALSO A PARTICULAR AND COMPLZTI HISTORY OP TH«
WALPOLEAN PRESS,
ESTABLISHED AT STRAWBERHY HILL;
With an accurate Lift of every Publication iflued therefrom,
and the exa£l Number printed thereof^
at the conclusion is given
A CURIOUS DISSERTATION ON THE
ORIGIN OF THE USE OF PAPER
Alfo, a complete History of the Art of
WOOD-CUTTING and ENGRAVING on COPPER,
From its firft Invention in Italy to its lateft ImprovemeQC
IN GREAT BRITAIN ;
LONDON,
i^ 1797:
Bibliop. Lond.
-
Reduced facsimile.
MEMOIRS O F
Philip de Comines
Containing the HISTORY of
By Mf. U V ED ale
VOL. I.
Reduced facsimile.
208 Instructions must not he too minute
o
212 Title matter not easily displayed
Books I
in the New York Public Librarj^ A
| |
Handbook |
New York MCMI |
YORK PUBLIC
LIBRARY
MCMI
214 Hindrances to title-page composition
TOGETHER WITH
LOCAL TRADITIOXS
AND SHORT
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
or
NEWBURGH:
S. T.CALLAHAN,
1846-7.
Rpihieeil facsimile.
AN OUTLINE HISTORY
OP
ORANGE COUNTY
WITH
BY
SAM'L W. EAGER, ESQ.
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEWBUKGH, AND COEBESPONDING
MEMBER OP THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OP THE STATE OP NEW YORK
NEWBURGH
S. T. CALLAHAN
1846-7
218 Openness needed for proper display
1 It was once taught that the be allowed for the name and
words for a title-page could be honors of the author, which had
cramped in a becoming manner to be fenced off with dashes.
within the general outline of a The text of this book was in
top, a wedge, or a coifin but the
; small-pica, but the seven catch-
words of this title did not lend lines of the title were set in in-
themselves to arbitrary arrange- significant small capitals. The
ment. Nor was the author flexi- petty catch-line was then rated
ble, for he insisted on greater as a grace. Theabsurdity of set-
prominence for the line Biogra- ting seven lines of the most im-
phical Sketches, and the length- portant page of the book in the
ening of that line marred the pettiest letters was not then per-
wedge -form intended. As was ceived. This fashion is near its
customary then, and sometimes end. It is required now that
is now, the rules of printers were catch -lines be sparingly used,
opposed to those of the author, and that they be of readable size.
and words might be selected for The only lines in the title-page
display with small regard for of an ordinary octavo or duodeci-
their relative importance. In m
mo that ay be put in very small
this title-page too much space capitals are those that give credit
was taken for display lines and to a motto or contain the honor-
catch-lines, and but little could ary titles of the author.
220 The Anatomy of Melancholy
THE
AJNTATOMY OF
MELANCHOLY
WAat it if, with, ail^ the, kinds, causes,
ST/mptoms, prognostics & severat ewes ofiA
la thiee Partitions -with, their several
Sections. nmiiTjers Sc siib sections..
i')dlosop7ii<xiMy , MedidiiMlbf,
JSstorioiUy opened^ & ait tjp.
BY
Denworitus Ju^nior,
With u Satyrical J^eface- conducing
to rhe^ following Discourse.
T/ie Sixth: Sdvlwn,, corrected and
^azupnenied by the Author.
Omzie tulit pimazim,. e/ui jrwscidt lUdo duki-
Lou don.
Printed, &:~ar»whesold,hy
&er wk
Sen,. Gips
sJurp
LodoLloy^at'
Pdpes-head, All^,
AIL THE KINDS. CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, PROGNOSTICS, AND SEVERAL CURES OF IT.
IN THREE PARTITIONS.
WITH THEIR SEVERAL
BY DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR.
SI ^eto 15ti(t(on,
BY DEMOCRITUS MINOR.
PHILADELPHIA:.
J. W. MOORE, 193 CHESNUT STREET.
NEW YORK:
WILEY & PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.
1647.
Reduced facsimile.
BY ROBERT BURTON
THE ANATOMY OF
MELANCHOLY
WHAT IT IS
WITH ALL THE KINDS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS,
PBOGNOSTICS, AND SEVERAL CURBS OF IT. IN THREE
PARTITIONS, WITH THEIR SEVERAL SECTIONS, MEMBERS
AND SUBSECTIONS PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICALLY,
HISTORICALLY OPENED AND CUT UP
BY DBMOCRITUS JUNIOR
WITH A SATIRICAL PREFACE CONDUCING TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE
A NEW EDITION
CORRECTED AND ENRICHED BY TRANSLATIONS OP
THE NUMEROUS CLASSICAL EXTRACTS
BY DEMOCRITUS MINOR
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR
"f
PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK
J. MOORE
W. WILEY & PUTNAM
193 CHESTNUT STREET 161 BROADWAY
1847
224 Simple arrangements most acceptable
PLANNING A TITLE-PAGE
LIFE
OF
AND
VOL. I.
LONDON.
Printed for Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row ; Cowie, Low, and Co. Poultry;
Smith,
Elder, and Co. Comhill; J. Dowding, Newgate Street; R. Bayiics,
Paternoster
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Street; W. Mason, Pickett Street; P. Wright and Son, Broad Street,
Bloomsbury
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Exchange ;
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M. Doyle, High Holhom; 1. Poynton, Knighlabridgc ; J.Vincent,
Oxford;
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H.Mosley', ;
Derby; Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh; J.Cumming, M. Keene,
C.P.Archer, and
R. M.Tims, Dublin Chalmera and Collins, Glasgow ; ami H S. Baynes,
; .
Edinburgh.
1826.
Eeduced facsimile.
BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq.
THE LIFE OF
SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.
COMPREHENDING AN
ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND WORKS
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY
CORRESPONDENCE, CONVERSATIONS WITH
MANY EMINENT PERSONS
AND
VOLUME I
LONDON
FEINTED FOE BAYNES & SON
1826
230 Explanation of the remodelling
1 1 do not mention here the Nor have we yet reached the end
Golden types of William Morris, of invention: we are warned to
and other types made for the expect in the next decade other
amateur presses of England and new faces hased on the old-style
America (all of them of old-style models. For special illustrations
character), for these types, made and remarks on the peculiarities
for special occasions, are not to of the old-style face, see pages
be had of regular type-founders. 188-190 of Plain Printing Types.
Title-pages not always in same face 235
REMOTE NATIONS
OF THE WORLD
IN FOUR PARTS
BY
LEMUEL GULLIVER
First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships
Volume I
LONDON
PRINTED FOR BENJAMIN MOTTE
AT THE MIDDLE TEMPLE-GATE IN FLEET STREET
M DCC XXXII
238 Modernised old style
THE FOUNDING OF
THE CENTURY
AND
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION
1897
240 Antique old style
TO JERUSALEM
At Easter A.D. 1697
BY
HEN. MAUNDRELL, M.A.
Late Fellow of Exeter College and Chaplain to the
Factory at Aleppo
OXFORD
PRINTED AT THE THEATER
AN. DOM. M DCC XIV
JOURNEY
FR O M
Aleppo to Jerufalem
At Eafter, A. Z). 169-7.
X F ^ D,
Printed at the Th e a t e r, An. 2)om. MDCCXIV.
Keduofd facsimile.
AREPORTE
OF THEKING-
dome of Congo, a Re-
gion of A F R I C A.
4. Befidcs the deiciiption of diaert planteS) Filhcs and Beallei, that ate
founde in thofe Countries,
LONDON
Printed by lohn Wolfe. 1597.
Reduced facsimile.
244 The Jenson face
CONGO
A Region and of the Countries
of Africa,
that border rounde about the same.
C Drawen out of the writinges
and the discourses of Odoardo
Lopes, a Portingall, by Phi-
Itppo Pigafetta. Trans-
lated out of Italian by
Abraham Hartivell
LONDON
PRINTED BY JOHN WOLFE
1597
246 Elzevir or Cadmus fare
The form of romaii type known in America under
the names of Elzevir, CadmuSj or French old style is
the reproduction of an old type by Gustave Mayeur
of Paris, who labelled it " Sixteenth-centuiy style." ^
WILLIAM COBBETT
A NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION
BY
ROBERT WATERS
PRINCIPAL OP THEWEST HOBOKEN (n.J.) PUBLIC SCHOOL;
FORMERLY TEACHER OF LANGUAGE AND LITERA-
TURE IN THE HOBOKEN ACADEMY
NEW YORK
R. WORTHINGTON, 77O BROADWAY
248 Fifteenth-century style
BLACK LETTER
BALLADS AND BROADSIDES
Printed in the
Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Between the Years
1559-^597
Accompanied with an
INTRODUCTION AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES
Second Issue
LONDON
Joseph Lilly, 17 and 18, New Street
1870
250 Bradford and MacFarland faces
BY
MR. FRANCIS HICKES,
Whereunto is added the Life of Lvcian gathered
out of his veritable Writings, with briefe
Notes & Illustrations on each Dialogue
& Boolie, by T. H., M. of Arts of
Christ Church in Oxford.
OXFORD,
Printed by William Tvrner, 1634.
252 Two-line letter of bold-face
ANABASIS OR
EXPEDITION OF CYRUS
AND THE
MEMORABILIA OF SOCRATES
XENOPHON
BY
EEV. J. S. WATSON, M.A., M.R.S.L.
WITH A GEOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARY BY
W. F. AINSWORTH, ESQ.
F.S.A., P.R.G.S., P.G.S.
LONDON
BELL AND DALDY
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1873
254 The ''Saturday Post'' face
FIFTH EDITION
Corrected and Much £i\lar|^ed
GLASGO-W
Printed for Robert Smith at the sign of
the Gilt Bible, opposite to the Entry
to the New Church Saltmercat
256 Tico-Jiue letter of light-face
BY
J. J. JUSSERAl^D
CONSEILLER D'AMBASSADE, DR. ES LETTRES
ILLUSTRATED
SECOND EDITION
NEW YORK
G. p. PUTNAM'S SONS
LONDON
T. riSHER UNWIN"
1890
North End Union, Boston
Outline of the
Course of Instruction
in the
School of Printing
Fourth Term
1901-1902
Boston, Mass.
Faces seldom used in title-pages 259
^Imprinted at Loudon
'By Henry Denham
1570.
Printers' Marks
A Chapter in the History of
Typography by W. Roberts
Editor of " The Bookworm "
BY T. C. HANSARD.
PRINTED FOR
BALDWIN, CRADOCK. AND JOY: LONDON.
1825.
Reduced facsimile.
XII
GREECE
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ROMAN
CONQUEST. WITH SUPPLEMENTARY
CHAPTERS ON THE HISTORY OF
LITERATURE AND ART
BY
WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D.
EDITOR OF THE DICTIONARIES OP GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIEB,
BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY, AND GEOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATED
BY ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
FRANKLIN SQUARE
1870
272 Title-page should have irregular outline
PAINTING IN ITALY
PEOM
VOLUME III
LONDON
HENRY G. BOHN
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1854
18
2 1 4: Xames need not make full lines
SHAKSPEEE
AND OTHER
ENGLISH POETS
BY
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1885
276 Names spaced and condensed
It is not a good rule, for the display line of few
letters is not improved by its wide spacing to full
width. In most instances the name in an unspaced
or slightly spaced short liue will prove more effec-
tive. It is only in the title-page of scant lines, in
A S O S S
ASSOS
Another difflcidty wUl be met when the name has
too many be properly conspicuous in one
letters to
liue,about which remarks will be made on a fol-
lowing page. For the present it is enough to sug-
gest that, under proper restrictions, the name of
many words may be put in two lines.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
BRITANNICA
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
WILHELM MEISTER'S
APPRENTICESHIP
A NOVEL
LONDON
HENRY G. BOHN
TOEK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1855
278 Treatmejit of nantos and subtitles
GESTA ROMANORUM
OR
GESTA HOMANORUM
OR
VOLUME I. 1805-1835
Reduced facsimile.
280 Catch-lines should be readable
CINQMARS ou
summary,
the display of specialized woixls in a long
and to arrange them in S(|uared, diamond, or half-
diamond indention but when a display of under-
;
CINQ-MARS
UNE CONJURATION SOUS LOUIS XIH
Le Roi de cette con-
^tait tacitement le chef
juration. Le grand-ficuyer Cinq-Mars en 6tait
I'Aine ; le nom
dont on se servatt ^tait celui du
due d'OrMens, frere unique du Roi, et leurcon-
seil ^tait le due de Bouillon. La Reine sut Ten*
treprise et les, noms des conjures...
Quinzi6me Edition
PRECEDEE DE REFLEXIONS SUR LA V^RITE DANS L'ART
ACCOHPA.Cn£e de DOCOUBHTS HtSTOniQUES
PARIS
MICHEL LEVY FRERES, LIRRAIRES fiDITEURS
nCE VIVIENNE, 2 BIS, ET BOULEVAUD DES ITALIENS, IS
A LA LIBRAIRIE NOUVELLE
1865
Tons droits r^serv^s
Reduced facsimile.
282 Treatment of honorary titles
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
TOKK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1885
28-1: Different methods for the motto
BY
HENRY THOMAS RILEY, B.A.
LATE SCHOLAR OF GLASS HALL, CAMBRIDGE
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME ONE
LONDON
HENRY G. BOHN
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
MDCCCLII
286 Numerals preferred in title-pages
IN TEN VOLUMES
VOLUME SIX
IN TEN VOLUMES. VOLUME EIGHT.
288 Useless additions to the title-page
ILLUSTRATIONS
DE GRANDVILLE
RE^OBTEES SUB BOiS
PAR A. DESPERET
GRAVIES
PAR BRENDAMOUR
OIRECTEl'n OE L'lTiSTITVT l.\l.OGnAPHIQUE DE DL'SSCLDOBr
1 The great
artist of his time ample here presented, from an
may be discontented when the illustrated edition of the Fables
names of fellow-contributors to of La Fontaine, is an attempt to
a book are set in types as large show degrees of artistic merit
as those used for him. The ex- by graduation of types.
THE
HOLY BIBLE
CONTAINING
BY
THE REV. INGRAM COBBIN, A.M.
NEW YORK
SAMUEL HUESTOK, 150 NASSAU STREET
1850
290 Different methods of treating a title
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294 Ni'i'dcd truiispositiotis of title matter
CICERO
THE NATURE OF THE GODS ON DIVINATION
;
LITERALLY TRANSLATED
CHIEFLY BY THE EDITOR
C. D. YONGE, B.A.
LONDON
HENRY G. BOHN
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
MDCCCLIII
29fc) Old rules about meeting lines of display
HESIOD
CALLIMACHUS AND
THEOGNIS
LITERALLY TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH PROSE
WITH COPIOUS NOTES BY
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1879
298 Meefiii// Unev need wide separation
COLLOTYPE andHELIOTYPE
BY
W. T. WILKINSON
OI" LONDON
EDWARD L. WILSON
EDITOR OF THE PHILADELPHIA PHOTOGRAPHER, AUTHOR OF
WILSON'S PHOTOGRAPHICS, WILSON'S QUARTER CENTURY
IN PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHIC MOSAICS, ETC.
NEW YORK
PUBLISHED BY EDWARD L. WILSON
No. 853 Broadway
1895
300 Proper nidening of measure
MIN^IATURISTS
ILLUMINATORS
CALLIGRAPHERS
AND COPYISTS
WITH REFERENCES
BY
JOHN W. BRADLEY, B.A. Loxd.
AUTHOR OF A MANUAL OF ILLUMINATION, ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOLUME III
LONDON
BERNARD QUABITCH, 16, PICCADILLY
1889
302 Wide spacing of display lines
THOMAS CARLYLE
FROM 23d march 1822
TO 16TH MAY 1832
EDITED BY
NEW YORK
THE GROLIER CLUB
M D CCC XC VIII
304 Wide spacing not an improvement
GIAMBATTISTA
BODONI
TIPOGRAFO ITALIANO
£
CATALOGO
CRONOLOGICO
DELLE SUE EDIZIONI.
TO MO I.
PARMA
DALLA STAMPERIA DUCALE
MDCCCXVI.
306 Treatment of names that are too long
VELAZQUEZ
BARTOLOME ESTEBAN
MURILLO
Disregarding their excellent method of displaying
the names of persons, French compositors make
too free use of extra-condensed types for the long
name of a book.The impropriety of pinched let-
ters inany title-page that has abundance of white
space above and below the line has ali'eady been
pointed out, but other examples may be useful.
Limitations of condensed type 307
NEW YORK
LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY
In this illustration the name in three lines is more
readable, not merely because it is larger, but be-
cause it has a proper relief of white space above,
below, and between lines, and on the sides of the
words. It should never be regarded a fault to put
an over-long name in two or more lines of readable
type on any title-page that has abundance of space.
Long names of persons and long titles of books
are common. Sometimes they contain from six to
twelve words, and each word seems to require equal
prominence. As it is impossible to display all the
words in one line, the compositor is hampered by
the other rule that two lines of the same face and
size must not meet, and he will be perplexed in
every attempt to give a proper prominence to each
308 Treatment of very long titles
THE HISTORY
OF
ROMAN EMPIRE
In this illustration Roman Empire is too large for
other words in the name the words The Decline
;
THE HISTORY
OF
ROMAN EMPIRE
A much more compact and quite as readable an ar-
rangement of this matter could be made by putting
all the words in three lines only — a method not to
THE HISTORY OF
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
The catch-line is now not in as much favor as it
has been. There are publishers who prefer that the
connecting particles of the should appear in full in
the same type that has been selected for the other
words, as appears in the previous illustration.
310 Method for avoiding catch-lines
CYROP^DIA
OR INSTITUTION OF CYRUS
AND
THE HELLENICS
OR GRECIAN HISTORY
XENOPHON
BY
The Rev. J. S. WATSON, M. A., and
The Rev. HENRY DALE, M.A.
LATE DEMY OP MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD
LONDON
BELL AND DALDY
TOBK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1870
31:2 Profuse disphii/ alu-aijs needless
BY
SIMON OCKLEY, B.D.
PBOPESSOE OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVEBSITT OF CAMBRIDGE
LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
YORK STREET, COVBNT GARDEN
1878
31-4 Useless testing of widths of type
COMMEBPOED KALAKINSKY
COMMEBFOBD KALAKINSKY
tions, but the set that is proper These suggestions about dif-
for the lower-case is not always ferential spacing may be re-
satisfactory for another meeting gardedasover-nice,but attention
capital. The set of the capital to trifles is really needed to give
S, properly near to any lower- completeness and harmony to a
case sort, is always too near to a displayed title-page.
318 Unequal spacing of nteet'mg lines
CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XX
CONTIGUITY CONTIGUITY
The wider spacing of the second line to the right
isnot an improvement, for it breaks the uniformity
of method which has been observed in every other
chapter in a place where uniformity of method is
of importance as one of the marks of orderly com-
position. It is never wise to attempt spacing when
a worse result will f oUow. Two proximate lines of
the same length may be unsightly, but if this fault
cannot be corrected without making a greater fault,
the two lines of the same length carry with them
their own explanation and apology.
Spacing between letters is tolerable with types of
standard width only the spacing of any condensed
;
ABOUT BLANKS,
LEADING, AND SPACING
illFFERENT divisions of title
matter should be made no-
ticeable by blanks and not
by separating dashes; but
when title matter is in excess,
and there are many irregular
divisions, the short hair-line
dash may be used with pro-
priety. The full-length cross-
rules of single or double lines, the diamond dash,
and all forms of ornamental dashes, as well as the
narrow strips of border that were common in title-
pages made before 1800, are now rated as disfigure-
ments, for these marks of separation have more
prominence than important words or lines.
When the name of author, editor, or illustrator,
or one or more lines of a motto, or a specification
323
324 Blanks for rule-bordered pages
the title proper, but the iDlank that follows this dash
should be of increased width. When the publisher
adds lines to a title-page that call attention to edi-
torial revisions or illustrations, and small space can
be allowed for the blanks that should show the dis-
tinctiveness of this matter, then a dash, and some-
times two dashes, one above and one below, may be
used to emphasize more clearly this distinctiveness.
An old rtde orders title matter to fill the page.
Its first line must be parallel with the first line of
the text ; the date of the imprint must be parallel
with the last line of the text page. This is made
obligatory, whether the title matter contains five or
twenty-five lines. It is not a safe rule. When the
title is crowded, the matter should fill the page; but
when it has few lines, the first line should not be at
Summarj' relation of the mean sub- tolerated, else too many Titles would
ject on which the Work is founded: be taken to belong to the Chapmen's
and tho' it consists but of one single books. It is therefore proper that Ti-
pagej yet to display its several mem- tles should have the revisal of one that
bers in such a manner that the whole is allowed to have a good judgment
tion and symmetry, is counted a mas- alter a Title to the mere fency of Pre-
terly performance. And tho' setting tenders, is the ready way to spoil it.
fancy; yet does it not follow that the 217. 8vo. London [1755].
taste of the race, nation, and age The more classic the book, the
in which the work was first writ- more appropriate it is that the
ten, and finally in the grace of text should appear alone, in order
the characters, independent of that the beauty of the letters
time or place. . Types may be apparent. This is real
should be suitably arranged on art."
174 ALEXANDRE.
Mais rien ne me forcoit, en ce commun effroi,
CLEOFI LE.
FIN.
ILLUSTRATING BOOKS
THE
ENEMIES OF BOOKS
BY
WILLIAM BLADES
THE DIVERSIONS
OF A
BOO K-WO R M.
THE PLEASURES
OF A
BOO K-WO R M.
342 Petty rnhrkation ahvays ineffective
real blemish.
It is always expected that a title with one or two
red-ink lines will be improved by this use of color,
rBJzr
^OLYGLOTTAl
COMPLECTENTIA
^Chaldalcum .
TexnuOnginale
7 caicucho Samaricano, J
Gr ,£CUM.
'bA MARITAN A , A P. A B I C <£t
Verlionumqut >E T H O 1 P I C A,
anuqtuiumi < A L D A 1 C A,
SY MAC .£, VuLC. Lat,
Quicquid comparari poccrac.
i!
Cum Apparatu, Appendicibus, Tabu us, Varus
LecTIOHIIUI, AwHOTATIOMIBUfy iHDICIBUt, jfc.
L J?CP J -^Z.
ImgrimebatTHOMAS aOYCROFT,
M DC LVII.
POINTS IN TITLE-PAGES
LONDON
HENRY STEVENS & SON 115 St Martin's Lane
Over against the Church of St Martin in the Fields
MDCCCLXXXVl
34:8 Points ill, titles unwisely prohihited
iS5
PART III
CUITICAL
XV
THE PICKERING TITLE
THE SQUARED TITLE
NE of the numerous reformers
of printing during the nine-
teenth century, and the one
now honored as the most de-
serving, was William Picker-
ing, a famous publisher of
London. Aided by his printer
and lifelong friend, the sec-
ond Charles Whittingham, he
broke away from printers' rules, and had title-pages
LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
1849
354 Pickeriuffs borders for title-pages
BRET HARTE
BOSTON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
356 Attempts at greater simpHeity
POETICAL WORKS OF
JOHN MILTON
VOLUME I
ALDI
LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
1852
358 Titles in Joiver-case letters
Eeduced facsimile.
360 Large capitals not easily arranged
Iatalogue of the
BOOKS in the LIBRARY
OF THE TYPOTHETiE
OF THE CITY OF NEW
YORK. WITH A SUBJECT INDEX.
of larger letters for the words that are too short
and smaller but
letters for those that are too long,
this isone of the condemned methods of display.
If the words allow a change of size, the foreseen
blemish may lie avoided but if the changes thus
;
UNIVERSAL
PALEOGRAPHY
OR FACSIM,ILES OF
WRITINGS OF ALL
NATIONS AND PE-
RIODS COM PILED
FROM THE MOST
CELEBRATED AND
AUTHENTIC MANU-
SCRIPTS IN THE LIBRA-
RIES AND ARCHIVES.
BY M. J. B. SILVESTRE
Uneven spacing caused by too narrow measure.
Reduced facsimile.
366 New rules make awkward divisions
NEW-YORK
PUBLISHED BY THE GROLIER CLUB
MDCCCXCV
Reduced facsimile.
368 Ornaments to fill gaps
DEDICATED LOVING IN
MINDFULNESS OF
MANY LESSONS
LEARNT ® TO
THE MEMORY
OF ® HENRY
BRADSHAW
® ® ®
® ®
®
XVI
A ehap-book illustration.
Jemmy6*nancy
OF
Yarmouth.
A chap-book title.
HAFcPLKJr* BPJ0THLR.5
PVBLISHEPcS
Newspaper title in ohap-'book style.
Reduced facsimile.
374 Why titles trere wide-spaced
the left side of the page. Nor does the last line of
a paragraph escape the rule ; can have no quad-
it
(HICAaO
wmyiNow/ar&cD
MDQixxau
378 Peculiarities of the Bradley style
are better mates for the full capitals, are not selected
cannot be explained. Sometimes these particles in
italic lower-case are spaced, even in positions where
RlR/i
KELMSCOTT TYPOGEAPHY
ANY amateurs have tried to
reform printing, but William
Morris has been most success-
ful in obtaining admirers.
How much of this admira-
tion has been earned by the
beauty of his presswork, and
how much by his audacity
in pulling down old idols of
taste and in putting up new objects for reverence,
are questions not to be decided hastily.^
All of his Kelmscott books were printed from
two faces and three bodies of type made from his
gan printing books with the hope It was the essence of my under-
of producing some which would taking to produce books which
have a definite claim to beauty, it would be a pleasure to look
while at the same time they upon as pieces of printing and
would be easy to read, and should arrangement of type."
388 Peculiarities of Kehnscott types
HBCDef6ni7KL)yi)>^
opQRsravaixYZ
The capitals of the Troy type.
5»!3 3 P c
hcl C
in DQ » S 2 c:t&*2 s^Q,-.o cu
o 3^ o
s-»rf
^ft^S
-
-
>4
^ <^ --.
|4 ^2 3 o'-a o
w CD
o
«<»
So f^ ^^"l^<3 11^2.
392 Gothic letter cannot he revived
Reduced facsimile.
400 Imitations demand much skill
26
REFLEXIONS
SENTENCES ET MAXIMES MORALES
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
PRECEDEES D'UXE NOTICE
PA II
M. SAINTE-BEUVE
de I'Academie Trancaise
OEUVRES ClIOISIES
DE VAUVENARGUES
AVEC UN CHOIX DES MOTES DE VOLTAIRB, HORELLCT, FORTU, ETC.
NODVEILE EDITION
nEVUB AVEC CnA>D SOI» SDR LES UEILLEURS TEXTES
PARIS
GARNIER FRERES, LlBRAIRES-fiDITEURS
6, RUE DES SAINTS-Pi^llES, ET P AL AlS-ROY^L, 213
Reduced facsimile.
XVIII
FRENCH TITLE-PAGES
illRECTIONS for the composi-
tion of title-pages have been
given byTh6otiste Lefevre of
Paris in his Guide Pratique du
Compositeur, which often dif-
ferfrom those now observed
by printers in England and
America, but his rules are
instructive and deserve an
extended examination. To assist the reader to a
better knowledge of recent French practice the
following summary of Lefevre's rules is submitted.
THEATRE
DE
BEAUMARCHAIS 403
404 Arrangements of French title-pages
LA
PHILOSOPHIE
When the words selected for largest display are
too many for one line, they may be put in two or
more Unes, and one line should be larger, as in
THEOLOGIE
MORALE
DES CURfiS ET DES CONFESSEURS.
THEOLOGIE
SERAPHIQUE.
When the words are too many for one line, the
preceding word, as Treatise or History, should be
in the largest type even if it makes a short line.
TRAITfi
DU
DROIT ECCLESIASTIQUE.
When all the words in three or more proximate
LECONS o
SYNCHRONIQUES
D'HISTOIRE GENERALE.
406 Arrangements of French title-pages
DROIT ECCLESIASTIQUE
DANS SES PRINCIPES GENERAUX;
LANGUE FRANQAISE
GLOSSAIRE RAISONNE
DE
ET PRECEDE
d'an Tableau syDopllque de rAcadfimle fran^alse
dcpul» I'epoqne de sa cr«ailon.
PAR M. P. POITEVIN,
^UTKUR DV COCRS TH^OKIQUE ET PRATIQUE DE LANGUE FRANf AISE.
1 Plus une langiie se repand plus elle a besoio
,
• lie ( Rivarol, )
depats et d'archivei. >
PARIS,
TYPOGRAPHIE DE FIRMIN DIDOT FRfiRES,
IMPKIMEUHS DE l/lNSTITUT,
HUE JACOB, 5G.
M DCCC LIII.
Reduced facsimile.
408 Arrangements of French title-pages
ECOLES PRIMAIRES,
ou
EXERCICES NOMBREUX
POUR DEVOIRS JOURNALIERS ET COMPOSITIONS DES SAUEDIS
1° Ed Instruction religieiue et en Histoire laiate
2" en Arithin6tique ; —
3° en Grammaire fran^aite
4° en Histoire de France; 5" en G^ographie; —
6" en G^om^trie et Deisin Itn^aire,
Compositions doDt lea places dolvent ttre ioscriles sur le reglstrc des Instltuteurt
et des Instltutrices , conformiimeDt 6 I'articlc 2!> du R^glemeot g^o^rat
(MATIfiRE ET CORRIG£.)
PHECEDE d'UN
PARTIE DU MAITRE.
Ouvrage deslio^ a abreger et k faciliter la Uche deja si difficile da mailre.
K L'DSAGE
DIx Gravares.
PARIS,
FIRMIN DIDOT FRERES, ROE JACOfi, 56.
1852.
Reduced facsimile.
410 Arrauf/ements of French title-pages
JULIE
ou
LA NOUVELLE HELOISE;
LETTRES DE DEUX AMANTS
HABITANTS D*UNE PETITE TILLE AU PIED DE5 ALPES
RECUBILLItS ET PDBLIEES
TOME PREMIER.
1 Not always a safe rule. It ing display line is short, the
seldom happens that the two measure may be narrowed,
publishers assent to equality in 3 This is not the American
J.-J. ROUSSEAU,
DCS EaillRCISSEMENTS ET DES NOTES HISTORIQVES.
LA NOUVELLE HELOISE.
TOME PREMIER.
PARIS,
P. POURRAT FRERES, fiDITEURS,
RUE DES PETrTS-AUGUSTIHS , V° 5.
M DCCC XXXI
Reduced facsimile.
412 French preference for hair-lines
SOCIETE FRATERNELLE
DES PROTES
DES
IMPRIMERIES TYPOGRAPHIQUES
DE PARIS
others short, some large and others small, without
regard to the relative value of the words. When
the line proposed has too many words, a squeezed
type must be used ; when it has few words or let-
ECOLES PROFESSIONNELLES
FRECEDEES S UN
AVANT-PROPOS
LORIGINE DE L'IMPRIMERIE
E. DESORMES
Dlrecteur technique de I'^cole Gutenberg
PARIS
JECOLE PROFESSIONNELLE GUTENBERG
41, RUE DENFERT-ROCHEREAU, 41
M DCCC Lxxxvni
Keduoed facsimile.
416 Desormes's notions about titles
SOCIETE FRATERNELLE
DES X JVvJX-biJ^ DES
IMPRIMERIES
TYPOGRAPHIQUES
DE PARIS
This arrangement gi^-es suitable prominence to the
most important word, PROTES, more equally fills
the space, and preserves uniformity of face and of
shape in all lines.
XIX
LETTEEING
PLAIN, GROTESQUE, ARTISTIC
843.
Reduced facsimile of ornamented lettering admired in 1849.
424 Bad lettering always a fault
EXPERimCE
428 Autographic letters not in request
Mfl^fin §Co:
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lupprms
inllffcxciu
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WILLIAM FLOWERS, Steward of Essex House.^S^'^'^'^'^'^'^'^
artist of eminence
may be effective
for its originality
VELA^QVEZ
and audacity, but
it is usually in of- GIOrlNG^oRTH
fensive contrast to
the orderly tyjies
of text matter.
ARISToRa^CS
g^ss^^ V^RDS WORTH
PATH'S TinToreTto
ENTER
TYCHOBRyffi
On the tablets of a library.
T( this
) may be added
the squat O iu a word
like PRoPoKTIoX.
It seems to be a con-
1 JH. ^ 1 ivA
GEDY-OF-
OTHEfcO-
9 VENICE-
A title-page for a play of Shakspere.
offensive in another.
Tendencj- to eccentricity should be kept in check.
The harsh ad^aoe given by a cjiiical critic to a
young writer of florid prose — " When you think you
have written a sentence uncommonly fine, draw
your pen over it
""
— may be repeated to the novice
in printing. Every compositor of much practice
reviews the ornate compositions of his youth with
some disgust, for a wider experience has proved
that all or nearly all of them were inappropriate.
This remark may seem superfluous, but the caution
was never more called for than it is now.
Arrangements of types in artificial shapes should
be avoided. A title-page always pleases when it
disjilaysno evidence of effort, when it seems to be
composed in the easiest way or in the only way in
which the t.A'jies could be set with propriety. It is
waste of labor to try to compress inflexible tj-pes
and almost indi^isible words in the strait-jackets of
arbitrary shapes. The compositor should never
Coarseness to he avoided 443
IttCeCiKtoitWgwg
By CHARLES T. JACOBI
MANAGER OF THE CHISWICK PRESS AND EXAMINER IN
TYPOGRAPHY TO THE CITY AND GUILDS
OF LONDON INSTITUTE
E®
SOME 3ipTES ON
'BOOKS .AND TRINriNG
J: gUIDE FOR
Tr CHARLES T. J J COB I of
THE CHISIVICK TRESS
EXAMINER IN TYPOGRAPHY TO THE CITY AND GUILDS OF
LONDON INSTITUTE
LONDON
PRINrED 'BT CHJRLES WHITTINGHJM y CO.
rOOKS C0UR7, CHANCERY LANE
sMDCCCJfCII
SOME NOTES ON
Bv CHARLES T. JACOBI
MANAGER OP THE CKISWICK PRESS AND EXAMINER IN TVPOGRAI'IIY TO THE CITV
AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE
LONDON
PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
AT THE CHISWICK PRESS
MDCCCXCII
^ome j^otts on
TBp Cbarles
ilBanagfT of tt)c tStifslDlrb
C 3larobi
pirss ano iffiamlncr (n iTfpaBrapIlP to Ite
LonDon
Pci'nreli bj CJarles oailjittingliani ano Co.
tlToobsf (Court, Cftanctrp 3Lane
iSIBccwciJ
Some Notes on
By Charles T. Jacobi
Manager of the Chiswick Press and Examiner in Typography
CO the City and Guilds of London institute
By CHARLES T. JACOBI
MANAGER OF THE CHISWICK PRESS AND
EXAMINER IN TYPOGRAPHY TO THE CITY V
CHARLES T. JACOBI
MANAGER OF THE CHISWICK PRESS AND EXAMINER IN TYPOGRAPHY
TO THE CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE
LONDON
FEINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE
1892
Some Notes on
BOOKS and
PRINTING
A Guide for
LONDON:
Printed and publifhed by Charles IVhittingham and
Company, at the Chi/wick Prefs, 30 and 21, Tooks-
court, Chancery-lane. MDCCCXCII.
INDEX
INDEX
Eor tlie translations of the coloplions the author is indebted to
Pi-of essor Andrew F. West of Princeton University.
name and copyright notice on need not fear any other of the
books printed in, 24 (note 1) gi-aphic, 446
hair-line borders now rarely used Augsburg, large ornamental ini-
in, 86 ;
practice of mitring in, 86 tials for paragraphs introduced
square and bold-faced types in, in, 30, 33 ;
Ratdolt migrates from,
184; amateur presses of, 234 to "Venice, 43
(note). See United States Augustine, St., small types early
American Type Founders' Com- needed for works of, 10
pany, 244 Ausonius, Beeimus Magnus, Ba-
Amsterdam, Van Bijk designs let- dius's first edition of, 28, 30, 31,
tering for state-house of, 09 (note) 331 (note)
Anatomy of Melancholy, reprint Authors, words of, fitly expressed
of, 220, 221 ; first edition of, 220, in title-pages, xix method of ;
illuminator put at end of, 5 first ; useful shapes of, 99; paging of,
of, with printed date, 5 cata- ; 100 uniformity of lettering of
;
30
466 Index
rubricating, 101 added graces ; and disadvantages of rule, 79, 82
sorely needed bv, 101; engraving abandonment of rule, for ordi-
for early, 102, 110, 121; use of nary books, 82 difficulty of reg-
;
black a dismal type for ordinary, now in iise for title-page, 89;
121 cheaper, of Jenson, 121
; suggestions for making rule, 92,
title-pages of common German, 94; when printed with type in
130; new styles of black-letter black ink, 92. 94; broad-faced, 94;
not favored for title-pages of types inserted in broad, 108;
standard, 133. 136; prof usely dee- books made attractive by en-
orated, 141 titles of dainty, 150
; graved, 121 cease to be captivat-
;
solid type by first printers, 331 associated with Dr. Johnson, 230,
new methods produce more read- 231
able, 334; Kelmscott, 336, 3S7 et Bradley. Will H., title designed by,
seq. of amusement and of in-
: 377 : engraved lettering of, 378
struction, 337 bought for thought
; letters in t^'pe of, 378; style of
of author, 444. See following, composition of, 378. 380
and Editions and Manuscripts Brith, Sigismund, title supposed to
Books of Hours, combination bor- have been printed by, 45
ders made by French printers BiTiges, edition of Boccaccio print-
for, 57. 58 imperfect borders of
; ed at, 16 (see also not^)
some, 58 Bur^km.air, Hans, woodcuts for
Bordeaux, early treatise printed at, printing in colors made by, 54
15, 17 (see also note) Burton, Robert, reprint of, 220,
Borders, early manuscript books 221 first edition of, 220, 221
;
{note) ; old style of, 234 et sea. ; assertion by some early printers,
his old-style types recast oy 10 set entirely in capital letters
;
bastard title of edition of^ 97, 98 books for many years, 21; incon-
Catbolicon, colophon stating place, veniences attending use of, 21
and date of printing af&xed to, Peter Sehoeffer adds device to,
5-7 name of printer not given in,
; 21 device placed above or below,
;
held by, 163; Moxon's advice to, of, for many years, 21 conjoined ;
for title-pages by, 176 dislike to ; rarely attempted by, 101 man- ;
set title-pages, 195 plan for title- ; nerisms of, 108 (note 1) methods ;
pages needed by, 201, 202, 1*08, of medieval, 139 taught to use
;
to, 64; freaks of, 69; letters fitted vating, 157. See Colophon and
to space by, 69; abandonment of Dnprint
outlinestyleby 72 determined to , ; De VinnePress, title-pages designed
have fair showing for workman- and printed at, 93, 120, 134, 213,
ship, 110 object sought by early,
; 239, 279, 303, 339, 365, 367 book in ;
difficult to get, 85. See Borders, tors forced to make much, 110
Decoration, Device, and Rules, impropriety in selection of words
Brass for, 114 methods of, in title-
;
phons of, 8 (see also note 2), 10 Duns Scotus, John, colophon of
(see also note) edition of, 24 (see also note 2)
Device, of Fust and Schoeffer, 5, Diirer, Albert, woodcuts for print-
21, 22 precursors of the engraved,
;
ing in colors made by, 54; great
16 adopted by early printers, 21,
; master in design, 60 blocks of, ;
Elzevirs, device of, does not belittle Plantin, 64, 66 (see also note) ;
title-pages in petty books by, 69, early English books, 110; chap-
144; letters of, characterized as books characterized by crudest
"ugly,"17S; old type copied from forms of, 369. See Copperplate,
one of the books of, 246 (see also Device, Photo-engraving, and
note) Woodcuts
Emblems, heraldic, 36 hackneyed, ; Ensched6, Isaac, ornamental letters
41 in specimen-books of, 156; type-
England, one peculiarity of old fouudi-y of, 169, 177 (note)
colophon still iu fashion in, 24 Expert, variation in treatment of
{note 1)revival of device in, 41
; title-pages by, xix, 450-460
punning de\ives favored by print-
ers in, 41 early attempt at com-
; Facsimiles, not reproduced to re-
bining woodcuts for border in, vive old or make new rules, xviii
59 ;coppei^late title-pages not not selected inconsiderately,
out of fashion in, as late as 1840, xviii; exhibit methods of com-
69,72; hair-line border now rarely posing title-pa^es in different
used in. 86 ; practice of mitring periods, xviii, xix show impossi-
;
rules followed iu, 166; ablest Ger- change not suppressed by new,
man punch-cutters go to, 169 x\iii old methods of merit not
;
ished script title in, 153 orna- ; et seq. ; favored by ordinary Ger-
mental types esteemed in, 156 man reader, 124
admirable models of letters pro- Grafton, Richard. See Grafton and
duced in, 160 Moxon's rules fol-
; Whitchurch
lowed in, 166 ablest German
; Grafton and Whitchurch, Cran-
punch- cutters go to, 169; small mer's Great Bible printed by, 116
capitals east on wider body_ in, Granjon, Robert, eccentric script
175 condensed type used for title-
; modelled by, 147; receives ten
pages in, 184 years' patent, 147; lightness of
Fran^oise bS^tarde, 118 larger types of, 179; piunches of
Frederick in, Roman emperor, 15 remarkable lightness of face made
{note) by, 246 {7iote)
Froben, John, device of, does not Great Bible. See Bible, Great
belittle name of book, 41 Greene, Robert, title-page of book
Fust, John, sketch of, 15 {note). by, 78
See Fust and Sohoeffer Gregoriis, John and Gregory de,
Fust and Schoeffer, custom of il- title printed by, 53
limiinator in use of colophon fol- Greswell, William Parr, title-page
lowed by, 5; memorable device of of work by, 132
5, 21, 22. See Schoeffer, Peter Grolier Club, treatise on title-pages
published by, xvii; title-page of
Oaramond, Claude, admirable mod- edition of Philobiblon issued by,
els of letters by, 160 134
Oenesis, title-page of early edition Gryphius, Anthony, device of ,34, 36
of, 117 edition of Sallust by, 102, 103,105
German text, models for, 127; pro- Gutenberg, John, printing of Ca-
fusely flourished, 150 • tholicon supposed to be later
Germany, heraldic emblems pre- work of, 7 name and services of,
;
r>R; Moxon's rules for nse and outline, 33; appropriate for first
spacing of capitals followed in, pages of books of devotion, 33
166; Enschede type-foundrj' in, French, 36; large decorative, a
ItUi fleeting fashion, 36, 37 elegance ;
copyists taught to save space for, ing type and border in black, 92,
3; not so modest as copyist, 4; 94 broad-faced border printed in
;
utes illustrations of titles, xix; seq. types made lon^ before, 331
;
ments of. 418; clumsy arrjinge- place in modem books, 330 Flem- ;
expert of, xix; revival of device from, 140; ornamental faces in.
in, by Pickering, 41 attempts at ; 156; series of book tjTDes in, 177
color-printing in, 54; Queen Eliz- {note)
abeth Prayer-book printed at, 55, Manuscripts, inability of modern
Index 475
printers to reproduce gothic, xx; Moreau, Pierre, script of, 143, 150
used as copy by first printers de- Mores, Edward Rowe, Aldine title
void of title-page, 3 devoting en- ; revived by, 108; reformer of ty-
tire leaf to title-page of, probably pography, lOS (note 1): peculiari-
deemedwaste,3; copyists 'method ties of style of, 108 (note) ; title-
of introducing readers to, 4 name ; page of work by, 109
of copyist rarely affixed at end of, Moretus, John and Balthazar, suc-
4; many early, veithout name, cessors of Planttii, 66 (note) Ru- ;
uniformity of lettering, 101; let- of leads, 329, 330 dictum of, 330
;
ters of early, 133 ; ordinary, 446. his dislike of leading, 332; reac-
See Books and Editions tion introduced by, 336; title in
Manutius, Aldus, unpretending ar- style of, 364 bold black printing,
;
ing adapts trade-mark of, 41, 351 ment of his reasons for beginning
peculiarities of edition of Statius printing of books, 387 (note) ; his
printed by, 100 modest titles of,
; Dooksprinted fromtypes designed
100, 157, 356 italic of, 102
; titles ; by himself, 387, 388 ; characteris-
of, out of fashion before 1600, 108; tics of Golden, Troy, and Chaucer
style of, revived by Mores, 108 (see types 388-390 his methods of
of, ;
also note); simplicity of, 110; com- book-making, 390; his reverence
mended for his new
italic, 147; for medieval or monastic fashions,
half -diamond form preferred by, 392; peculiarities of title-pages
212 tablets in book printed by,
; of, 393; huge initials of, 394;
332, 333 methods of spacing employed by,
Marques Typographiques, more 394 et seq.; on types, spacing, and
than thii'teen hundred devices re- leading, 396 (note) much done ;
Metre, colophons put in, 11, 12; over classic forms, 447. See
Puttenham's views on, 17-19 KeVmscott Press
Milton, John, title-page of work Motto, use of, 25; inclosed in bor-
by, 87 der of typographic flowers, 184;
Miniatures, delicacy of, manu- m suggestion regarding, 214; treat-
script books, 63 ment of, 284, 286
Mitring, modem method of, un- Moxon, Joseph, copperplate pre-
known to early printers, 82 ferred to wood-engraving by, 69
specimens of skilful, 86 brass ; first English writer on t^og-
rules now made to form right an- raphy, 79 on use of capitals,
;
(.Oxford corners, description of, 86, of the first to revive use of device,
89 specimen
; of, 91. See Rules, 41 trade-mark of Aldus adapted
;
portant, 30, 33. 101 titles set in ; (note) ;copperplate title in every
fonn of 05-^97. 98. 358 et seq.
, ;
important book made by, 144;
selection of large types for first Granjou's script used as text type
lines of. 1U2 long introductions
; by, 147. 150
set as, 108; title-page divisions in Poetry, construction of, in geomet-
solid, 110 rical forms, 19
Index 477
Poggio (Gian Francesco Pog^o of books of early Venetian, 48
Bracciolini) , colophon of edition black- bordered title-page imi-
of, by Goes, 9 (see also note 2) tated by, 48 exact registry of
;
early, 7 ;
piratical, 7 ; imknown, ing of books given to, at fixed
7; names of, put at end of books prices, 112; luck of good taste
after fifteenth century, 8; self-as- noticeable in, 112, 114; pointed
sertion of some early, 10 Jenson ; black preferred by early French,
in front rank of, 10; traditional 118; old types adhered to by
colophon dissatisfies early Italian, Flemish, 118; Parisian, 118, 267;
11 colophons put in metre by
; initials, borders, and woodcuts
early, 11, 12 eccentric an-ange-
; used in black-letter books by
ment of colophons by, 12; bold early, 121 on the Continent, 121
;
dard books, 41 devices of noted, ; favor with, 177 et seq. new fash- ;
41, 42; designs of, in white lines ion approved by, 182 mannerisms ;
colophon of, 13 (see iilsn Twte) pages neither possible nor desir-
Sessa, Melchior, title printed by, 46 able, xix skilful variation of,
;
Siberch, John, title printed by, (JH in ten titles by expert, xix, 450-
Silius Italieus, Caius, title-page of 460 ; modem
roman not likely to
edition of, 110, 111 be superseded by new, xx; aban-
Silvestre, M. J. B., printers' devices donment of outline, 72 paragraph :
Smith, John, 203 (see also note), Morris, 398 combination of old
;
miich larger than that of, 110; 223, 229, 237, 241, 245, 247. 249, 251,
early use of engraved pictui'es in, 253, 255, 257, 258, 271, 273, 275, 277,
]"21 ornaments should be lighter
; 283, 285, 289, 293, 295, 297, 299, 301,
than types of, 139 of German ; 311,313; helpfulness of a study of
type, 169 ; style of title-page quaint, xix coarseness of Puri-
;
Title, Bastard. See Bastard title tive initials for, a fleeting fashion,
Title-pages, practical side of mak- 36, 37; need of decoration on, 41
ing of, xvii; trifling compared names of book, author, and pub-
with following text, xvii impres- ; lisher on, 41 devices found in fac-
;
sion made upon reader by, xvii similes of 42 borders with black
, ;
of, 86, 89; arrangement of rules et seq. ; regular divisions of, 209
now in use for borders of, 89 of ; et seq. ; roman capitals best suited
standard books, 89; borders of for, 233 uniformity in composi-
;
set in the form of paragraphs, 95- style, 264, 265; in old-stvle type
97; developed from the early bas- of small body, 266 difference ;
neglected in Italy, 99; early print- photo- engraving applied to, 270
ers adhere to old form of, 99, 100; {note) fully decorated, outside
;
short life of photo-engraved, 422; many sizes made by, 182 Thorne ;
Tyndale, William. See New Testa- of single, in short lines, 19; books
tnent printed from, with usages of
Type-founders, Jenson in front copyists, 21 colophon often set
;
nize with, 74 engravings in pure ; favor but now disliked, 418 or- ;
first Bible, 118 roman, made and ; work by, 112. See Compositors
used in England, 130; without Tyyographia, labored title-page of
proper legibility, 133 modem ; Johnson's, 84, 85; title-page of a
specimen-books of, 133, 136; or- German, 126, iL'tri; Hansard's, 252
namental, in title-pages, 144, 147, (note), 26H
153, 156; new faces and shapes of, Typography, influence of decorated
147 ; script, 147, 150 ; difficulty of title-pages upon, xvii; too close
making ornamental. 153, 156 ;af- imitation of mannerisms of early
terward produced in endless va- printers not helpful to, xis curi- ;
riety, 156; in bad taste, 157; need ous notion of some amateui-s re-
of large, 160; badly cut and badly tarding, 19 improvement of, 60;
spaced, 166, 175, 1K4, 186; con- of, in other countries. 63 (note)
densed, 177 et seq. extra-con- ; copperplate title-page outside
densed, 1S2 ef seq. limitations of : field of strict, tiH regarded as an ;