Here is an excerpt from the preface:
THIS volume of typographical practice, which is now in its eleventh edition, originated almost fifty years ago in a single sheet of fundamentals jotted down for his own guidance by an early proofreader at the University of Chicago Press. The first published edition of the Manual of Style appeared in 1906, under the authorship of the late Louis Warming, of Denver, Colorado, then assistant to the General Editor, although it had been preceded by a similar publication entitled Style Book: Adopted and in Use for University Publications, which was issued February 16, 1901. Changes in literary practice and new decrees of learned societies and of library associations have made constant additions and revisions inevitable.
Typography, like any art, is bound by conventions and rules. Perhaps, in the deference which must be paid to consistency and uniformity of style, it is as confined to precept as many an exact science. Since this is a manual of practice, the apparent dogmatism in many of the prescriptions will be understandable. The publisher must decide., or at least act as if a decision had been made, in cases where scholars are still debating. Few of the rules contained in this book are inviolable. They were not devised to torment or to plague the author but to aid him in obtaining for his work the virtue of consistency.
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