I particularly appreciate the assistance of the late Otto Ege, Mrs. Anne Lyon Haight and Lawrence C. Wroth in revising their essays for publication here, and the thoughtfulness of Robert Josephy, Will Ransom and Arthur W. Rushmore in writing postscripts to enhance their essays.
I am thankful to Mrs. Caroline Anderson of Los Angeles; my colleague Jackson Burke at Linotype; to Christopher Morley of Roslyn, L. I., and Arthur W. Rushmore of Madison, N. J., for valuable suggestions and help in research.
For assistance in securing illustrative material I am indebted to my Typophile friends: John Archer, A. Burton Carnes, Lester Douglas, George L. McKay and William Reydel. To Fred Anthoensen of Portland, Maine, I am thankful for help in securing electrotypes to illustrate two articles.
The publisher, and I as editor, acknowledge our appreciation to the authors of the other essays included, and to their editors and publishers, for permission to reprint this valuable material, for which detailed mention of copyright and publication date is printed elsewhere.
And I hope my apologies may be accepted, should there be inadvertent omission of appreciation to the numerous other individuals who have so generously assisted me in preparing this book for the printer.
LANCELOT HOGBEN. Printing, Paper and Playing Cards 15
EDWIN ELIOTT WILLOUGHBY. Printers' Marks 45
A. F. JOHNSON. Title Pages: Their Forms and Development 52
LAWRENCE C. WROTH. The First Work with American Types 65
JAMES WATSON. The History of the Invention and Progress of the Mysterious Art of Printing &c. 85
EVELYN HARTER. Printers As Men of the World 88
ANNE LYON HAIGHT. Are Women the Natural Enemies of Books? 103
BEATRICE WARDE. Printing Should Be Invisible 109
W. A. DWIGGINS. Extracts from an Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books 129
DESMOND FLOWER. The Publisher and the Typographer 153
WILLIAM DANA ORCUTT, BRUCE ROGERS, CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS, JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, P. J. CONKWRIGHT, ARTHUR W. RUSHMORE, MILTON GLICK, MORRIS COLMAN, EVELYN HARTER, PETER BEILENSON, and ERNST REICHL. The Anatomy of the Book: A Symposium 160
ROBERT JOSEPHY. Trade Bookmaking: Complaint in Three Dimensions 169
WILL RANSOM. What Is a Private Press? 175