Typographia; a brief sketch of the origin, rise, and progress of the typographic art with practical directions for conducting every department in an office - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...in the preceding chapter, upon the principal subjects connected with the department of composing, it next becomes our duty not only to lay schemes of the various impositions before our readers, but also to endvor to give a general outline for the imposition of whatever odd matter there may be at the conclusion of a work; and likewise to explain, in as clear a manner as possible, every point connected with this important branch of the art. This article not only comprehends a knowledge of placing the pages so that they may regularly follow each other after they are printed off, and the sheet folded up, but also the mode of dressing chases, and the manner of making the proper margin. We will suppose that a compositor has got up as many pages as are required for a whole sheet, or such portions of a sheet, of whatever size; he begins to lay them upon the imposing stone, placing the first page with the signature to the left hand facing him, according to the following schemes, which, it is hoped, will be found to contain every necessary imposition; they consist of folios, quartos, octavos, twelves, sixteens, eighteens, twenties, twenty-fours, thirty-twos, thirtysixes, forties, forty-eights, sixty-fours, seventy-twos, ninetysixes, and one hundred and twenty-eights. Schemes of various otner irregular sizes might also be introduced, but they could answer no other purpose than that of pleasing the fancy, by exhibiting the possibility of folding a sheet of paper into so many different forms. Abstract Title Deeds of Estates. Two Sheets of Folio, Quired or lying one in another. Outer Form of the Outer Sheet. Imposing in quires may be carried to any extent, by observing the following rule:--first, ascertain the number of pages, then divide them into so many sheets of foli...
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