Here’s the fifth issue of the 5-issue quarterly publication
and clearly shows the value of determining the purpose and the correct treatment of each article of printing
Very interesting and rarely seen
But now a personal note: When we were young
concerned that Van Vechten’s fragile negatives were deteriorating
Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type dotdotdot Here’s the fifth issue ofGeoffrey Dowdings teacher, J. H. Mason, had been a compositor at both the Doves and Cranach presses, two of the finest private presses from the early twentieth century. Following the example of William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, the private presses re established early practices for good typography, such as close word spacing, no extra space after punctuation, leading suitable for the typeface and proportional to the line width, etc., which are