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Title: The Magazine Style-Code

Author: Leigh H. Irvine


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PUBLISHED BY
THE MYSELL-ROLLINS BANK NOTE CO.

THE
MAGAZINE STYLE-CODE

BY
LEIGH H. IRVINE

CROWN PUBLISHING CO.
SAN FRANCISCO
1906

Printers Lithographers Engravers
22 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal.


The Magazine Style-code

A MANUAL FOR THE GUIDANCE OF AUTHORS,
REPORTERS, TYPEWRITERS, MINISTERS,
LAWYERS, PROOFREADERS,
COMPOSITORS, PUBLISHERS,
AND ALL WHO
WRITE.

LARGELY CODIFIED FROM THE SYSTEM OF
THEODORE LOW DE VINNE, FROM THE
CENTURY MAGAZINE, THE CENTURY
COMPANY’S BOOKS,
AND THE TREATISES
OF F. HORACE
TEALL.

ABBREVIATIONS, THE USE OF CAPITAL
LETTERS, COMPOUND WORDS,
ETC., FULLY ILLUSTRATED
AND EXPLAINED.

BY
LEIGH H. IRVINE

Author of The New California, An Affair in the South Seas, The Writer’s Blue Book, and Other Works.


CROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY
SAN FRANCISCO.
1906.

Copyright, 1906,
SAMUEL EPPSTEIN

DEDICATED TO
THEODORE LOW DE VINNE,

WHOSE WORKS ON TYPOGRAPHY HAVE BEEN
THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE AND INSPIRATION
IN THE PREPARATION OF
THIS LITTLE BOOK.