A NOTE ON THE TYPE IN
WHICH THIS BOOK IS SET
This book is composed on the Linotype in Bodoni, so-called after its designer, Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) a celebrated Italian scholar and printer. Bodoni planned his type especially for use on the more smoothly finished papers that came into vogue late in the eighteenth century and drew his letters with a mechanical regularity that is readily apparent on comparison with the less formal old style. Other characterisics that will be noted are the square serifs without fillet and the marked contrast between the light and heavy strokes.
SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED BY THE
VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BING-
HAMTON, N.Y. · ESPARTO PAPER
MANUFACTURED IN SCOTLAND
AND FURNISHED BY W. F.
ETHERINGTON & CO., NEW
YORK · PRINTED AND
BOUND BY THE PLIMP-
TON PRESS, NOR-
WOOD, MASS.
