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The art & practice of typography : a manual of American printing, including a brief history up to the twentieth century, with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft, and a practical discussion and an extensive demonstration of the modern use of type-faces and methods of arrangement (1917)

Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger), 1872-1934 · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 40

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rtion of a page (full size) from Fust and Sclioeffer s Psalter of 1457The first book with a printed date: showing initials and decoration cut in wood THE ORIGIN OF TYPOGRAPHY THE invention of typography in the fifteenth centurymarked the beijinning of a new civilization and the endof the medieval… … FRENCH PLAYING CARDA block print of the fifteentii century As has been shown, during most of the thousand yearspreceding the invention of typography, ignorance andsuperstition reigned thruout Europe, despite the eflorts ofCharlemagne and others to revive learning and encourageinterest in books. The…

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