The practice of typography

By Theodore Low De Vinne

Subjects: Typesetting, Style manuals, typesetting, History, compounding words, capitalization, figures, puncutation, italics, Printing, word division, Title pages, typography, Specimens, proofreading, Authorship, Graphic design (Typography), Type and type-founding, spelling, hyphenation, Typesetting machines, numbers

Description: This is a book about the practice of typography or typesetting books. Some topics addressed are correct composition, spelling, abbreviations, compounding words (hyphenating words), word division, figures, numbers, numerals, use of italics, capital letters (capitalization), punctuation, and proofreading.