TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
There are some characters quoted in the text that cannot be reproducedin the text version of the book.
The sign ſ represents the ancient long s; thesign [ct] represents the ct ligature and the sign [ffi] represents theffi ligature.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenatedvariants. For the words with both variants present the one more usedhas been kept.
Not all the font families used for the different articles includedin the book were availabe for the HTML version. The font familiesthat could be used for the transcription are Times New Roman, GillSans, Garamond, Bodoni MT (instead of Bodoni Book), Baskerville,Centaur, Perpetua and Bell. Most of the currently available browsersare compatible with those fonts. However, it is not certain that thecurrently available hand-held devices would be able to reproduce thetext with those fonts.
Punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.Nevertheless, there are some portions where the author quotes textwritten in ancient style in which the punctuation rules applicable nowadayswere not followed. Those have been left unchanged.
FORUM BOOKS
This ebook was created in honour of Distributed Proofreaders
20th Anniversary.
BOOKS
AND PRINTING
A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES
edited by Paul A. Bennett
Forum Books
THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY
CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK
A FORUM BOOK
Published by The World Publishing Company
2231 West 110th Street, Cleveland 2, Ohio
Revised Edition
First Forum printing February 1963
Copyright 1951 by The World Publishing Company.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without written permission from the publisher, except for brief
passages included in a review appearing in a newspaper or magazine.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 52-612
Printed in the United States of America. WP263
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am deeply grateful to many friends who have helped in the preparationof material for this book, and have freely granted permission to reprinttheir brain children.
To the Typophiles of New York, and to the individual authors in theirseries of Chap Books, I am indebted for including: T. M. Cleland's HarshWords; W. A. Dwiggins' celebrated "Investigation Into the PhysicalProperties of Books," first published for the Society of Calligraphers andincluded in Mss. by WAD; Evelyn Harter'