The school printshop . alwaysbe mortised, while the appearance of letters likeT and Y is improved by indenting the text linesbelow the initial so that they align with the bottomof the initial rather than with the top (Fig. 43).This makes the initial project somewhat to theleft and causes the appearance of an alignmentof the initial with the text. THAT thing which I understandby real art is the expression byman of his pleasure in labor. I donot believe he can be happy in hislabor without expressing that happi-ness; and especially is this so whenhe is at work at anything in which he specially ex
The school printshop . alwaysbe mortised, while the appearance of letters likeT and Y is improved by indenting the text linesbelow the initial so that they align with the bottomof the initial rather than with the top (Fig. 43).This makes the initial project somewhat to theleft and causes the appearance of an alignmentof the initial with the text. THAT thing which I understandby real art is the expression byman of his pleasure in labor. I donot believe he can be happy in hislabor without expressing that happi-ness; and especially is this so whenhe is at work at anything in which he specially excels. William Morris Fig. 43. To show the use of J as an initial letter What has been said about the sort of line and therelation of black and white properly applies also toborders. The width of the border should be pro-portioned to the width of the page margins, increas-ing from the binding side to- the tail (Fig. 44). The best examples of borders also show a similartreatment, on a very small scale, of the white space. 105 106 THE SCHOOL PRINTSHOP which should appear between the border and thetype mass. Whatever applies to other forms of page deco-ration applies with equal force to head- and tail-pieces. They should agree in design, the tail-piece indicating its purpose both by its shapeand by its position. In conclusion: Embellishment of the printedpage is legitimate and with restraint may beeffectively used; but the ideal of every youngprinter should be that of the Doves Press: To communicate to the imagination without loss bythe way the thought or image intended to be conveyedby the author,—to attempt its solution rather by thearrangement of the book as a whole, with due regardto its parts and emphasis of its divisions, than by thesplendor of ornament, intermittent page after page. Nicolas Jenson was a Frenchman who from 1460 to 1480published books in Venice. In common with all early printers,he made his own type, using gothic and the newly inventedRoman and Greek charact
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