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Printing types : their history, forms and use

History of the art of typography and printing from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. Vol. 1, discusses the Latin alphabet, the invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and England as well as German, Italian and French types of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Vol. 2 continues the discussion of types to the beginning of the nineteenth-century and then describes American types and nineteenth-century types in general. The closing chapters on choice of type and the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to problems printers face are very informative.

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