The essentials of good printing include a good, firm, clean and sharp impression with a really good black ink. The student must be able to recognise the difference between good and bad type. The two most important factors of modern book production are the selection of suitable type and the precise format of the page when the size of the volume is given. Note the various founts of type. Classes of type, sizes, and the point system, methods of composition, type-casting and type-setting machines, _e.g._, monotype, linotype, and others. Stereotype work. Methods of mounting plates for printing. Different kinds of stereotype and electrotype plates. Hand-press work. Kinds of presses used. The student should endeavour to examine Stanley Morison’s “Modern fine printing: an exhibit of printing issued in England, the United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia, Holland and Sweden during the twentieth century and with few exceptions since the outbreak of the war.” _Benn, 1925. £13 2s. 6d._ and _his_ “Four centuries of fine printing: upwards of six hundred examples of the work of presses established during the years _1500-1914_.” _Benn, 1924. £11 0s. 6d._ These two books are beautiful examples of fine printing, and will probably be found in most of our large Public Libraries. READING LIST. Aldis--The printed book. _Chaps. 6 and 7, pp. 57-91._ British Museum Guide to the exhibition of printed books. Davenport--The book: its history and development. _Chap. 4, pp. 85-101._ Encyclopædia Britannica--Articles _Typography_, _Printing_. Hitchcock, _editor_.--The building of a book. _pp. 25-76; 99-138._ Hodges--The printing press: its place in librarianship. _L.A. Vol. 17, 1924, pp. 68-71; 97-102._ Jacobi--Printing. _Passim, with special attention devoted to Chaps. 1, 16 and 21._ Jacobi--Some notes on books and printing. _Chap. 3, pp. 27-39._ Legros _and_ Grant--Typographical printing surfaces: the technology and mechanism of their production. _Longmans Green, 1916. 42s._ _Passim._ Meynell--Typography. The written word and the printed word. Some tests for types. Concerning printers’ flowers. The pioneer work of the Pelican Press. The points of a well-made book. A glossary of printers’ terms. Type specimens. A display of borders and initials. _The Pelican Press, 1923. 7s 6d._ _Passim._ Morison--On type faces: examples of the use of type for the printing of books. _The Medici Society, 1923. 30s._ _Passim._ Plomer--The history of printing, _1476-1898. The English Bookman’s Library. K. Paul, 1900._ _Passim._ Report of the Committee appointed to select the best faces of type and modes of display for Government printing, _1922. H.M.S.O. 4s. also_ Note on the legibility of printed matter, prepared by M. A. Legros. _1922. H.M.S.O. 1s. 6d._ Sharp--Practical bibliography. _L.W. Vol. 13, 1910-11, pp. 327-330._