Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use, Vol. 1: A Study in Survivals (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use, Vol. 1: A Study in Survivals Printing in the Graduate School of Business Ad ministration of Harvard University, during the years 1911 1916, and since then I have recast the material into a form suitable fbr publication. Each season that the talks were given I saw the necessity for amplification and abridgment of mat ter, and fbr modification of judgment, the results of which have been incorporated in these volumes; and now that my task is finished, I realize that further emendations could be continued with profit almost indefinitely. But while such a boo/c can never, in any strict sense, be complete, it must be completed, though even the measure of perfection hoped for may not have been reached. It has been written in town and in country, amid the interrup tions of business and in intervals of leisure - and in timeof war and tumults that at moments made its subject, and all like subjects, seem trivial and valueless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.