Reed as a lasting glory to the typography of the seventeenth century.
A uniform typography in accordance with modern use has been adopted for all poems of later date.
In the 'Hours of Idleness and Other Early Poems', the typography of the first four editions, as a rule, has been preserved.
The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, with Evidence of His Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges.
From the information which it contains, and the splendor of the decorations and printing, it will ever be considered as a model of excellence and good taste in typography and the arts.
There it nothing necessary to be known in the noble art of typography that is not contained in this book.
The Typography of the Fifteenth Century; being Specimens of the Productions of the Early Continental Printers, Exemplified in a Collection of Facsimiles from one hundred Works, together with their Water-Marks.
See The Life and Typography of William Caxton, by William Blades.
Interestingly enough, even the typography of L'Estrange's Observator may have left its mark on succeeding journals.
It was the same at Bamberg, Cologne, Nuremberg, and Basle, in all the cities that made the honour of typography and the Book in former times.
Doubtless it would be puerile to pretend that typography had not made any material progress; it had done so in engraving and in composition; work was done more quickly, because the presses had been made more perfect.
Spreading from the north to the south, typography had from 1490 its two principal centres at Paris and Lyons.
Doubtless the books that were thus secretly sold, and prohibited in defence of good manners, were neither chefs-d'oeuvre of typographynor art.
However that may be, he twice showed himself a resolute partisan of the celebrated Robert Estienne, son-in-law and associate of Simon de Colines, whose works in point of erudition and typography assumed day by day more importance.
Typography and the illustration of the Book in England in the sixteenth century did not make the same progress as in France and Italy.
About 1480, more than fifty years after the first essays, the Ars Moriendi enjoyed so much vogue that it employed all the resources of typography as much as in its earliest days.
At Nuremberg there was a curious specimen treating of natural history by Basil Besler, in which the artist gives the interior of a zoological cabinet of the time; but the blocks and the typography of the city of Koburger are wanting.
Typography had its type-founders, compositors, forwarders, inkers, and pressmen.
It must then be admitted that the fount was dispersed, and typography discovered, because the same cast of letters could not be adapted to different languages.
The character of typography is not pressing and printing but mobilization.
The language of the text, old High German, contains obsolete words which were out of use before typography was invented.
The Life and Typographyof William Caxton, England’s First Printer, etc.
That the Donatus was engraved and printed before the invention of typography is distinctly stated in the book now known as the Cologne Chronicle, which was published in that city by John Koelhoff, in the year 1499.
Koning, the author of a prize essay on the invention of typography by Coster, expresses his belief in the theory that the types of the Speculum were made from punches of wood and were founded in matrices of lead.
Some notice of the material and moral elements needed for the development of typography should precede a description of the work of the early printers.
Typography has a marked advantage in the greater ease with which printing types are inked.
There is nothing in this list of unsuccessful printers which assures us that typography had been invented or cherished in Haarlem.
We have no evidences that the unknown printer acquired his poor knowledge of typography through any other channel.
Supplied with paper, the so-called inventor of typography did no more than combine the old theories and processes, and give them a new application.
There are also some faults of typography and slight clerical oversights, which will doubtless be corrected in a second edition.
The volume does the enterprising publisher the highest credit, its typography and binding lacking in nothing that we could desire for elegance and taste.
As a matter of fact, the Dresden folio copies differ from one another, both as to typographyand contents.
The typography everywhere, especially in the portions printed in Roman type, exhibits many variations and divergences from our other four copies, which, in turn, are also characterized by numerous typographical and other variations.
In both of these copies the typography of the signatures to the Book of Concord is practically alike.
In this copy the typography of the signatures closely resembles that of the copy dated everywhere 1579.
With determined energy he issued an edition of Telemachus, which, for beauty of typography and paper, was looked upon, by the lovers of choice books, as a rich specimen of our art.
Only one more attempt at correction was made, when the compositor had its typography so changed that it read Tom Gregory, the Pope.
However this may be, it remains true that, in relation to the spread of literature and the development of civilization, typography is occidental rather than oriental.
The Columbiad" is now remembered as a contribution to typography rather than literature.
Cases in everyday typography are the signatures of books and the cabalistic symbols that indicate to the newspaper counting room the standing of advertisements.
But beautiful typography involves other elements than the cut of the type itself.
Beautiful typography is the very foundation of the book beautiful.
Where much is to be gained much also can be lost, and interpretative or expressional typography that misses the mark may easily be of a kind to make the judicious grieve.
The typography becomes not only a frame to heighten the beauty of the picture, but also a spell to lengthen our enjoyment of it.
What, therefore, shall be the typography of books that we love, that we know by heart?
It must not be forgotten that many gross errors in typography occur after the sheet is gone to press, through the accidents that are constantly happening to the movable types.
Typography was destined to abolish the use of block printing, and more particularly of caligraphy, which, till then, had occupied so many pious and patient hands both in monasteries and in schools.
Even yet, however, the earlier productions of the Aldine press maintain their former position: perhaps they have even surpassed it, for as specimens of ancient typography they stand unrivalled.
Biography and Typographyof William Caxton, England's first printer, p.
Perhaps the day will come when library schools, such as that about to be established in London at University College, will include this subject when dealing with bookbinding, typography and all allied practical arts.
Thus it falls that the negligence, incompetence, or preoccupation of printing-office managers makes good systems of typography the exception rather than the rule.
Martinez-Vigil, that attributes to Augustinians the introduction of typographyinto the Philippines?
The application of these principles of balance to the problems of typography is largely a matter of influence.
After a century or more of the most haphazard printing, Morris revived the traditions of the first book-makers, thereby stimulating a world-wide renewal of interest in typography and design.
Showing a typical title page composed at the beginning of the decline of typography in America.
The book is, therefore, a product of the two arts of wood-engraving and typographyin combination.
As typography spread from Germany through the other countries of Europe, the art of wood-engraving accompanied it.
Edmond) I am indebted for the details of early Scottish typography given above, assigns this book to the year 1542.
The second sub-division is known as typography or surface printing.
