A Treatise on Title-Pages
Subtitle: with numerous illustrations in facsimile and some observations on the early and recent printing of books
By: by Theodore Low De Vinne, A.M.
Series: The Practice of Typography
Publisher: Oswald pub. co.
Published: 1914
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
Copyright date: 1902
Subjects: Title pages; Printing
First sentence: This treatise  was  written  for  and  published  by  the Grolier  Club  of  the  city  of  New  York  in  February, 1901.
Notes: An enlarged edition of the author's "Title-pages as seen by printer", published by the Grolier club, New York, 1901.

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Table of contents: label: Preface
title: xvii; label: PART I: HISTORICAL; label: I The Colophon
title: 3; label: II Titles with Device
title: 21; label: III Titles with Engraved Borders
title: 43; label: IV Borders of Flowers or Rules
title: 75; label: V Paragraph and Bastard Titles
title: 95; label: VI Titles in Black-Letter
title: 115; label: VII Ornamented Titles
title: 141; label: VIII Early Displayed Titles
title: 157; label: IX Condensed Types
title: 177; label: PART II: PRACTICAL; label: X The Modern Title-Page
title: 195; label: XI The Selection of Faces
title: 233; label: XII The Display of Words
title: 269; label: XIII About Blanks, Leading, and Spacing
title: 323; label: XIV Red Lines and Letters. Punctuation
title: 337; label: PART III: CRITICAL; label: XV The Pickering Title. The Squared Title
title: 351; label: XVI The Chap-Book and its Outgrowths
title: 369; label: XVII Kelmscott Typography
title: 387; label: XVIII French Title-Pages
title: 403; label: XIX Lettering : Plain, Grotesque, and Artistic
title: 417; label: XX A Title-Page in Ten Styles
title: 449; label: Index
title: 461