A basic tool for the practising book designer.

Huge Williamson was trained as a printer, but from 1947 to 1964 he worked in publishing on the design and production of books. At one time in this period he was designing and controlling the production of about a hundred titles a year; by the end of it, he was production director of a group of publishing firms. Returning in 1964 to the printing industry, he was closely involved in the transition from metal type and letterpress to photo-composition and offset printing.