PREFACE A BOOK previously published the literary the
INside of type-setting was treated under
of Correct Composition. This book, its intended supplement, will be confined to comments upon the mechanical methods of Book
title
Composition.
In ordinary conversation this phrase
is
un-
discriminatingly applied to composed types in small pages, whether plain or decorated, of four leaves or of forty volumes. So considIt ered, the subject seems almost limitless. must be evident that there are too many kinds of books and too many fashions in type-setting to be thoroughly described in an
ordinary duodecimo. 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 ad-
mired as an exhibit of typographical skill. As the plain book is always in most request, its construction should be the earlier study vii