A NOTE ON THE TYPE IN
WHICH THIS BOOK IS SET
This book is set (on the Linotype) in Original Old Style of the history of which very little is known; in practically its present form, it has been used for many years for fine book and magazine work. The design of its lower case letters would indicate a derivation from English and Dutch Old Styles of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the period which reached its culmination in the work of William Caslon. The blackness of its capitals shows clearly, however, that their design was modified in imitation of the Modern faces which so completely displaced the Old Styles during the first half of the nineteenth century. Original Old Style possesses in a high degree those two qualities by which a book type must be judged: first, legibility, and second, the ability to impart a definite character to a page without intruding itself upon the reader's consciousness.
SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED, BY VAIL
BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON,
N. Y. · PRINTED AND BOUND BY
THE PLIMPTON PRESS,
NORWOOD, MASS.
