Theodore Low De Vinne papers, 1850-1914

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Manuscripts



Box 2 About Novelties in Typography


Box 2 About Pages and Margins


Box 2 About Typographical Unions


Box 2 The Adaptability of Papers


Box 2 Addresses


Box 2 Addtess to Columbia University students in architecture, December 1906


Box 2 Address to Yale College Club


Box 2 Bookmaking


Box 2 Brass Rule


Box 2 Choice of faces


Box 2 Address to Electerical Engineers, 9 February 1903


Box 2 Address to Stationers


Box 2 Composition


Box 2 Compositiojn in time


Box 2 Concerning Composition done for the Century Company, November 1894


Box 2 Decoration


Box 2 The Decoration of Books


Box 2 Detachable notes


Box 2 The Different Methods of Printing


Box 2 Display


Box 2 Display


Box 2 Early Roman Printing Types (1)


Box 2 Early Roman Printing Types (2)


Box 2 Estimate of copy, often called the Casting-Off of Copy


Box 2 Greek Type


Box 2 Hints about Job Composition


Box 2 The Implied Agreement between Author & P (unfinished)


Box 2 L'Imprimeris #623-627


Box 2 Initial Letters


Box 2 Initials and Headbands


Box 2 Italics


Box 2 Librarians Abbreviations - English, French, Italian, Latin


Box 2 List of Books belonging to Mr. Theo. L. DeVinne in Office Library, October 1906


Box 2 Memoranda about early Roman types


Box 2 Memoranda of litarary work concerning practical printing


Box 2 Measurable Matter


Box 2 Measurements


Box 2 Medieval Typography


Box 2 Misc. copy for Specimen books - less than 100 words


Box 2 Misc. copy for Specimen books - Poetry


Box 2 Misc. copy for Specimen books - 100 words or more


Box 2 Miscellaneous Manuscripts



Box 3 New Styles of Text Type (unfinished)


Box 3 New Text Types (unfinished)


Box 3 Notes made for a speech before the Typothetae at Aldine Association, 1900


Box 3 Old rules of display (on ms. leaves numbered 29-33)


Box 3 Paper


Box 3 Paper and Paper-Making


Box 3 A paper on the state of the printing trade, 1887

Read but never published


Box 3 Planning of display


Box 3 Plantin, Christopher "Dialogues in French for Young People" (with De Vinne's ms. notes)


Box 3 A new edition of "The Inferno"


Box 3 Roman Type


Box 3 Routine of Book-Composition


Box 3 Sketches of printers of Italy

Notes on books examined or used for fascims


Box 3 Society for the Encouragement of Arts. "The Report of the Committee on the Deterioration of Paper", 1898?


Box 3 Some Wrong Notions


Box 3 Wood-cuts . . . Errors of designers


Box 3 Why some wook-cuts are unsatisfactory


Box 3 Weber's "Buchdruckerei"

DeVinne's ms. excerpts of sections 39-41


Box 3 Typographical Efforts


Box 3 A poem


Box 3 Practice of typography (notes, etc.)


Box 3 Printing in New York


Box 3 Proofs


Box 3 Printing in the XIXth Century

Contribution to Evening Post, September 1900


Box 3 The Proper Proportions of Pages and Margins, etc.

From The Sizes and Shapes of Books


Box 3 La Reliure francaise (French book-binding)


Box 3 Remarks by Theodore L. DeVinne before the Board of Trade, 29 January 1903


Box 3 Types, &c.-memoranda


Box 3 Type


Box 3 To measure copy


Box 3 The Theory of Presswork (unfinished)


Box 3 Spacing of letters


Box 3 Spacing