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What a 1917 printers' handbook says about the parts, margins and page numbers of a book
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A source note on one chapter of Gress's 1917 typography handbook: the customary order of a book's parts, page numbering, running-title spacing and page margins. It helps anyone laying out a printed book or comic collection. It reports the period text only; the comic and picture-book use is untested inference.
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What a 1917 printers' handbook says about the parts, margins and page numbers of a book
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A source note on one chapter of Gress's 1917 typography handbook: the customary order of a book's parts, page numbering, running-title spacing and page margins. It helps anyone laying out a printed book or comic collection. It reports the period text only; the comic and picture-book use is untested inference.
Useful starting points
- The chapter says front pages take Roman numerals and pages from the first chapter take Arabic ones.
- It is period advice for printed books, not digital layout, and it never mentions comics.
- Treat the margin figures as one model book's example, not a universal rule.
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