A golden age of authors : a publisher's recollection . onthly, and with that Mr. De Vinne started on acareer which brought him to the very top of hisprofession and made him an accepted authority intwo continents on the art of wood-cut Smith made out of a blank-book manu-facturer an expert who wrote A History of Wood-Cut Printing and many books on typographyand composition, and collections of rules which areused for the guidance of printers the world popular type was named for him, De Vinne,though it should be said that Mr. De Vinne wasnot in any way responsible for it.
A golden age of authors : a publisher's recollection . onthly, and with that Mr. De Vinne started on acareer which brought him to the very top of hisprofession and made him an accepted authority intwo continents on the art of wood-cut Smith made out of a blank-book manu-facturer an expert who wrote A History of Wood-Cut Printing and many books on typographyand composition, and collections of rules which areused for the guidance of printers the world popular type was named for him, De Vinne,though it should be said that Mr. De Vinne wasnot in any way responsible for it. Several fonts ofnotably artistic types were prepared under hissupervision, and one of them was used for a time asthe body-type of The Century Magazine, but wasdiscarded after it became evident that the publicwas too accustomed to more commonplace fash-ions. Mr. De Vinne would take any amount of painsto make his work perfect. Under him was perfectedthe system of overlaying and underlaying wood-cuts, pasting bits of paper on the back in as many [ 200 ]. ^ X^. c^.^Z^^ THEODORE L. DE VINNE thicknesses as were necessary to bring up the partsthat were sunken or were not thick enough. Acostly press would stand idle for many days whilethis work was being done; a job that could be runoff in three days would sometimes take five to pre-pare. The supervision which Drake gave daily tothis part of the work helped immensely to make itperfect. He was unfailing in his patience and in hiskindliness; pressmen would do anything for him,and Mr. De Vinne backed him in every detail was too small for Drakes eye andthought. When the press would begin to run afterthe labor of days during the making-ready, hewould stand over it watching its product as amother watches her babys first steps, and DeVinne, Drake, and pressmen would rejoice togetheras some particularly finely engraved Cole blockwould begin to throw off its rich, dark impres-sions, serene, beautiful, multiplying in thousandsand t
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