The Art & Practice of Typography

Part 2 — APPENDIX Holiday Greetings

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Holiday Greetings furnish opportunity for expression of the art of printing. The more than one hundred specimens reproduced in miniature in this section (received by the editors of “The American Printer” from friends) contain many suggestions of typographic interest

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“Everybody in our house wishes everybody in your house a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”

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“Volumes of good wishes to friends of ours from friends of yours”

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“Christmas: A time for giving and for getting and forgiving and forgetting”

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“May all that thou wishest and all that thou lovest come smiling around thy sunny way”

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“At Christmas be merry And thankful withal, And feast thy poor neighbors, The great with the small”

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“GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO ET IN TERRA PAX HOMINIBUS BONAE VOLUNTATIS”

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“Ule! Ule! Three puddings in a pule— Crack nuts and cry Ule!”

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