Typologia

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TYPOLOGIA presents more or less graphically my work in type design and describes my own methods of type produElion. Of course it does more than that; for who, once having begun a book, can resist its own invitations-to quote, to comment, to ponder and amplify? My intention, then, must be not only to say my own say, but also to bring together from widely separated sources the suggestions or statements of others, and to weave them, with the conclusions reached by my own study and experience, into a new fabric.
Leigh Hunt once said that he did not like a grand library in which to study. Neither do I. I like "to be in contaEl with my books, to lean my head against them." I find it so difficult to concentrate my thoughts then faced with a wealth of information contained in a large library that I have practically limited my research to the materials in my own modest colleElion, picking freely from sources within easy reach, and making the most of things close at hand instead of searching for less accessible matter. I trust, however, that I have presented my findings in a manner which will be interesting as well as useful, and that it may not be said of me, as was said of Bagford, that "he spent his life col.., lecting material for a book. . . which he was quite incompetent to write," or, as was said of another, that "he was happiest in his quotations." "Truth is the property of no individual; it is the treasure of all men." If I perchance borrow without specific credit, like Bacon, who took all knowl.., edge for his province, or [with a little reserve] Marmontel, who said, "I pounce on what is mine wherever I find it," I intend merely to adapt the language of the unwitting lenders when it expresses my own thoughts
clearly-to draw from their full pools of knowledge wherewith to swell my own more scanty rills. I thank them all.

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