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• The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography (Chicago: Inland Printer, 1926), by Samuel A. Bartels (multiple formats at Google)
• Manual of style governing composition and proof reading in the Government printing office, together with decisions of the Board on geographic names. (Gov't print. off., 1900), by United States Government Printing Office and United States Geographic Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practice of typography; modern methods of book composition; a treatise on type-setting by hand and by machine and on the proper arrangement and imposition of pages (The Century co., 1904), by Theodore Low De Vinne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical typography; a series of exercises explaining and illustrating the most approved methods used in correct composition, for the teacher and student (The Manual arts press, 1913), by George Edward Mc Clellan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theory and practice of composition. (Washington, 1963), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typographical style governing the use of the guillemet--the French mark of quotation (Condé Nast press, 1922), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typographical style governing the use of marks of quotation in Italian composition (Condé Nast press, 1922), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• First steps in job composition (Pub. by the Committee on education, 1918), by Camille De Vèze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabular composition ; a study of the elementary forms of table composition, with examples of more difficult tabular composition (Published by the Committee on education, United typothetae of America, 1918), by Robert Seaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London scale of prices for compositor's work: agreed upon, April 16th, 1810, with explanatory notes, and the scales of Leeds, York, Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh. (Printed under the superintendence of the Trade council of the London union of compositors, by R. Thompson & co., 1835), by London society of compositors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osnovy knizhnogo nabora. (Gos. izd-vo, 1922), by V. I. Anisimov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Diagonal makeup of the newspaper (Newchisan house, 1935), by Budd Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die berufseignung der schriftsetzer; bericht über eine experimental untersuchung. (J. A. Barth, 1918), by Otto Lipmann and Dora Krais (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Münchener eignungsprüfung für buchdrucker und schriftsetzer (J. A. Barth, 1922), by Albert Huth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Using type correctly (K.H.Volk, 1941), by Kurt Hans Volk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Using type correctly, by Kurt H. Volk. (K.H.Volk, 1946), by Kurt Hans Volk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advertisement display ; mediums ; retail management (International Textbook Co., 1909), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• Style book and compendium of general information for use of California state printing office employees and state department authors. (California state printing dept., 1916), by California. State Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory and practice of composition. (United States Government Printing Office, 1950), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to figure type composition by known factors; a new, easy, and labor-saving method of finding the number of ems in any form of type matter; also reference tables, weight of linotype composition, and other information of value to printers, publishers, and printing buyers (Heir Publishing Company, 1914), by Martin Heir (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of style, containing typographical rules governing the publications of the University of Chicago together with specimens of type used at the University Press. (University of Chicago Press, 1925), by University of Chicago Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparative basic costs of typesetting by hand, linotype, and monotype, of, 8, 10, and 12 point non-technical text matter, set both leaded and solid. (Harvard university press, 1916), by Henry Huntly Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of style : being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago Press, to which are appended specimens of types in use. (University of Chicago Press, 2003), by University of Chicago Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Everyday arithmetic for printers : a manual of instruction in applied arithmetic for students and users of printing (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1930), by John Edward Mansfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive exercises in typography; a text for the school print shop and the apprentice printer (The Taylor-Holden company, 1915), by Ralph Andrews Loomis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Keeping the printing plant young; a discussion of the success of permanency and profit-making conditions (The Printing art, 1910), by Henry Lewis Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of style, a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago press, with specimens of types in use. (University of Chicago press, 1910), by University of Chicago Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of style, being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago press, to which are appended specimens of types in use. (University of Chicago press, 1906), by University of Chicago Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anleitung zum Accidenzsatz (C.G. Naumann, 1893), by Heinrich Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making type work (Century, 1919), by Benjamin Sherbow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Style book: a compilation of rules governing executive, congressional, and departmental printing, including the Congressional record. ([Govt. Print. Off.], 1917), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual práctico del cajista de imprenta (Escuela tipográfica del Hospicio, 1904), by Alvaro Fernández González (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theoretisk-praktisk Anviisning til at saette Sanskrit ([Sanskrit word] Dêvanâgarî). I Anledning af Bogtrykkerkunstens fjerde Secularfest (Trykt paa Udgiverens Forlag i det Kongelige preusiske Videnskabernes Academies Bogtrykkerie, 1840), by Jacob Behrend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The typography of advertisements that pay; how to choose and combine type faces, engravings and all the other mechanical elements of modern advertisement construction (D. Appleton and company, 1917), by Gilbert Powderly Farrar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Composing room management; a survey of present conditions and a discussion in detail of possible improvements (Berkeley, Cal., 1918), by Dorr Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typolographie : manuel de l'apprenti compositeur / par Jules Claye. (J. CLaye, 1874), by Jules Claye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Using type correctly. (New York, 1947), by Kurt H. Volk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new typography & modern layouts (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1934), by Frederic Ehrlich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The type and copy computer: a scientific method to figure copy needed to fill specified space and to dertermine type sizes required (The Author, 1922), by Samuel A. Bartels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practice of typography (Century Co., 1904), by Theodore Low De Vinne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Maqua plan : a complete course in intensive training for apprentice compositors (The Maqua Company, 1921), by Charles Edward Benham and Maqua Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Desk book. Bureau of Printing. A revised manual of style, useful information, and specimens of type used by the Bureau of Printing, Government of the Philippine Islands. (Bureau of Printing, 1910), by Philippines. Bureau of Printing and John S. Leech (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual of style governing composition and proof reading in the Government Printing Office (Govt. Print. Off., 1894), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Type spacing (J. M. Bowles, 1914), by E. R. Currier and Norman T. A. Munder & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Style book of typographical practice at the University Printing Office, Columbia University, New York City. (Columbia University, 1917), by Columbia University. Press and Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Type spacing (J. M. Bowles, 1912), by Everett Raymond Currier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moyen de dimineur de moitié, dans toutes les imprimeries de l'Europe ... (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1776), by François-Paul Barletti de Saint-Paul, Mme. de ***, Mme. de ***, and Imprimerie royale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of movable type from its invention to its dispersion in 1462 (1901), by Florence Sherwood Wing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Developing the dummy (s.n.], 1917), by John H. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford. (H. Milford, 1905), by Oxford University Press, James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, and Horace Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical typography; a series of exercises explaining and illustrating the most approved methods used in correct composition, for the teacher and student (The Manual arts press, 1917), by George Edward McClellan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of style; a compilation of typographical rules governing the publications of the University of Chicago, with specimens of types used at the University press. (The University of Chicago press, 1912), by University of Chicago Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide pratique du compositeur et de l'imprimeur typographes, suivi de notions précises sur les divers clichages, et sur la galvanoplastie (Firmin-Didot et cie, 1883), by Théotiste Lefèvre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabular composition (Oswald Pub. Co., 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typographie : manuel de l'apprenti compositeur (J. CLaye, 1871), by Jules Claye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kortfattet haandbog for typografer og korrekturlæsere : tillige indeholdende veiledning for forfattere, oversættere og forlæggere (Marius Lund, 1890), by Hermann August Scheibler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical typography; a series of exercises explaining and illustrating the most approved methods used in corect composition, for the teacher and student (The Manual Arts Press, 1920), by George Edward McClellan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practice of typography; correct composition; a treatise on spelling, abbreviations, the compounding and division of words, the proper use of figures and numerals, italic and capital letters, notes, etc., with observations on punctuation and proof-reading. (The Century co., 1916), by Theodore Low De Vinne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch für Schriftsetzer (Klimsch & co., 1905), by Friedrich Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Composition : a record of seven practical shop discussions. ([Boston], [Cambridge, Mass.], 1927), by Boston Club of Printing House Craftsmen, Boston Typothetae Board of Trade, and Mass.) Society of Printers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composition and presswork (Mansfield printing co., 1929), by Arthur James Mansfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Composition and presswork. (A.J. Mansfield printing co., 1932), by Arthur James Mansfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Intertype faces : one-line specimens, arranged alphabetically by point size. (Intertype Company, 1958), by Intertype Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Everyday arithmetic for printers ; a manual of instruction in applied arithmetic for students and users of printing (McGraw-Hill, 1940), by John Edward Mansfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The practice of typography; modern methods of book composition; a treatise on type-setting by hand and by machine and on the proper arrangement and imposition of pages (Oswald Pub. Co., 1914), by Theodore Low De Vinne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The typography of advertisements that pay; how to choose and combine type faces, engravings and all the other mechanical elements of modern advertisement construction (D. Appleton and company, 1918), by Gilbert Powderly Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Type faces, with which we "prove it with proofs" in typography for advertisements. (F. N. Phillips, inc., 1929), by Frederic Nelson Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor-saving devices for the composing room, description and details of their operation. (Pittsburgh, 1949), by Edwin Hamilton Stuart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Using type correctly. (K. H. Volt, incorporated, 1935), by Kurt H. Volk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Printing and the allied trades (Pitman publishing corporation, 1939), by R. Randolph Karch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A rational system for measuring composition. (Williams & Wilkins Co., 1913), by Edward Boteler Passano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communicating with the buying public at a profit; an advertising handbook for retail merchants (Printed by the Pueblo division of the Rocky mountain bank note company, 1934), by William Keith Chick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Typesetting, a primer of information about working at the case, justifying, spacing, correcting, making-up, and other operations employed in setting type by hand (Pub. by the Committee on education, United typothetae of America, 1919), by A. A. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of spacing; a treatise on the proper distribution of white space in typography (The Inland printer, 1926), by Samuel A. Bartels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand composition -- slug-cast (Ludlow Typograph, 1930), by Irving B. Simon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lehrbuch für schriftsetzer. (Leipzig, in the 19th century), by Alexander Waldow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of style : a compilation of typographical rules governing the publications of the University of Chicago, with specimens of types used at the University Press. (University of Chicago Press, 1919), by University of Chicago Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Printing and the allied trades. (Pitman, 1958), by R. Randolph Karch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of the Champlin press (The Champlin press, 1912), by Harry Parker Ward and Champlin Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women compositors : A guide to the composing room, by H. G. B., contrib. by Emily Faithfull (Gutenberg ebook)
• Typesetting: A primer of information about working at the case, justifying, spacing, correcting, making-up, and other operations employed in setting type by hand, by A. A. Stewart (Gutenberg ebook)

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