Introduction to typography

From the inside-front cover: 'Introduction to Typography' is a handbook for those interested in book production and deals with many of the typographic problems which normally arise in each stage of printing a book, from the half-title at the beginning right through to the index at the end. There are also chapters on Choosing a Type Face, The Printing of Plays and The Printing of Poetry, Illustration, Binding, etc. The book has been written for young printers and publishers and for coming aspirants into these trades. It will also be useful to authors and bibliophiles. Mr. Oliver Simon has entirely revised the material originally published by Faber and Faber in 1945 for this Pelican edition. 'A classical quality pervades the whole production, and the reader will sense immediately the quiet but firm authority of one who knows his job thoroughly, of a printer who is not only sensitive to beauty and scholarship but is great enough in his craft to be unaffected by the facile stylism so often in evidence these days.' - The Listener.