Title page and typical design for text pages, Eric Gill's "An essay on typography"

Eric Gill’s admirable little book, first published in 1931 in a limited edition, is important less for its erudition about the theory and practice of typography than for the moral support it gives to artists, whose principal concern is the quality of their work; to businessmen, who are chiefly interested in the bottom line; and to printers and publishers, who are more concerned with traditional practices than with wild ideas. Even though An Essay on Typography deals with technical difficulties, …