Modern Methods of Book Composition

Authors

Theodore Low De Vinne, The Century Company

Document Type

Archival Material

Date of this Version

1904

Citation

New York, The Century Company, 1904

Comments

Copyright, 1904, by Theodore Low De Vinne; now public domain.

Abstract

A TREATISE ON TYPE-SETTING BY HAND AND BY MACHINE AND ON THE PROPER ARRANGEMENT AND IMPOSITION OF PAGES

I EQUIPMENT. Types ... Stands .•. Cases ••. Case-racks.

II EQUIPMENT. Galleys and galley-racks ... Compositors' implements Brass rules and cases for labor-saving rule and leads … Dashes and braces ... Leads ... Furniture of wood and ofmeiaI .•. Furniture-racks ••. Quotations and electrotype guards.

III COMPOSITION. Time-work and piece-work •.. Customary routine on book-work ... Justi1lcation ... Spacing and leading Distribution ... Composition by hand and machine

IV COMPOSITION OF BOOKS. Title-page ... Preface matter ... Chapter headings and synopsis ... Subheadings ... Extracts ... Notes and illustrations ... Running titles and paging at head or at foot ... Poetry ... Appendix and index Initials ... Head-bands, etc.

V DIFFICULT COMPOSITION. Algebra ... Tables and table-work ... Music and music cases ... Genealogies.

VI FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Accents ... Greek ... Hebrew ..• German.

VII MAKING UP. The running title ... Signatures ... Notes, tables, extracts, and illustrations.

VIII STONE-WORK. Stones and chases ... Exact adjustment of margins ... Locking up ... Taking proofs ... Corrections ... Clearing away.

IX IMPOSITION. Elementary principles ... Schemes for various forms from two and four to one hundred and twenty-eight pages .•. Inset forms ... Oblong pages ... The leaflet ... Small pamphlets ... New method of collating Folding-machines ... Concluding remarks.

X MACHINE-COMPOSITION . Review of early methods . . . General organization Assembling and keyboard mechanisms . . . Learning to operate ... Management of the linotype machine Temperature of metal ... Treatment of matrices and of space-bands . . . The melting-pot, mould, and disk The assembling elevator ... Correct keyboard fingering.

497 pages