Twelve Timeless Tracts on the Art & Practice of Typography

This is a collection of typographic essays that both reiterate the history of typographic development and provide insights into the discipline of how type can and should be used. The emphasis is on the design and composition of books: Stanley Morrison on The First Principles of Typography; Geoffrey Dowding on the finer points of word and letter spacing; plus W. A. Dwiggins, Bruce Rogers, T. L. DeVinne, D. B. Updike, T. M. Cleland, John Dreyfus and Alfred W. Pollard.