[Rarebooks] For Sale: DeVinne's "Correct Composition", presentation copy

[Norman Kane]

DE VINNE, THEODORE LOW.   CORRECT COMPOSITION. A TREATISE ON 
SPELLING,ABBREVIATIONS, THE COMPOUNDING AND DIVISION OF WORDS . . . 
ETC. WITH OBSERVATIONS ON PUNCTUATION AND PROOF-READING.
N. Y.: Century Co., 1901.  First edition. (In his series of separate 
volumes on "The Practice of Typography.")   Original cloth, 7 1/2 X 5 
inches, top edge gilt, a nice copy, with tipped in printed 
presentation slip from DeVinne, a master-printer of his 
day.  $70.00   (Trade Discount Available)


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