Typographic Practice

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Names and proportions of leaves

370

01

91

11

13

1C

or,

20

19

LI

24

34

Twenty-four pages, oblong shape, 1 inset of 8 pages.

The pages could be laid for a folding in of the but

its

separate folding will

1 In advertised descriptions of books, some publishers specify the paper -trade name of the paper used before they add the name of the shape or the fold of the leaf, but this practice is not general. Sizes of paper differ and the names of leaf -shapes It differ in different countries. follows that the descriptive and names of sizes shapes are often confusing and may be

misleading. The table annexed gives names that are in frequent

make

inset,

a neater section.

use, but they are not so called everywhere. The figures give relative proportions in inches.

Name of leaf.

Height. Width. 9 6 .

Regular or standard Broad or wide

9

Quarto shape Long or deep Extra long or narrow Oblong or music way

9 9 9 9

... ... ...

6*& 7 5 13

Variations of a half-inch in the height are seldom explained by any change in name.


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