Transcriber’s Note
This book contains numerous examples of typesetting styles andtechniques, including spacing, justification and use of fonts. Effortshave been made to reproduce these examples as faithfully as possible,but there will inevitably be some minor differences from the original.
Details of corrections made can be found in the Notes at the end.
The cover for this ebook was created by the transcribersand placed in the public domain.
| TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES—PART II. No. 16 |
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
published by the committee on education
united typothetae of america
1919
Copyright, 1919
United Typothetae of America
Chicago, Ill.
Composition and electrotypes contributed by
The Frank D. Jacobs Company
Philadelphia
PREFACE
THEREis a prevalent notion that setting type by hand is not now asimportant a part of the printer’s vocation as it was years ago.Ingenious composing machines now perform so much of the work of puttinginto printable shape the literature of the world that it is oftenassumed the hand compositor’s occupation is fast disappearing and doesnot offer much inducement for an ambitious young man to followseriously. This is a mistaken notion entertained only by those who havea limited conception of printing craftsmanship and its possibilities forthe exercise of individual skill.
It is true that the greater part of the composition for ordinaryprinting is now done by machines, just as in other lines of industrymachines are relieving human hands of the drudgery in large-scaleproduction by multiplying products through mechanical operations. Butthat the work of the hand compositor is any less important now than itever has been is far from the fact. Behind the great volume of machinework, and absolutely essential for any effective use of machine product,there is greater