Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type.

Geoffrey Dowding's teacher, J.H. Mason, had been a compositor at both the Doves and Cranach presses, two of the finest private presses from the early twentieth century. Following the example of William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, the private presses re-established early practices for good typography, such as close word spacing, no extra space after punctuation, leading suitable for the typeface and proportional to the line width, etc., which are delineated in this book.

While this book was not at hand in many type shops, it should have been. For many of those concerned with fine typography it is considered a “must-have.”