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, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 46
were reported bytrained writers known as tabularii, or inscribers of tablets,and were revised and edited before publication by asenator appointed to that duty. Abbreviated forms ofwriting were used in reporting,* a sort of short-handwhich enabled the scribe to write as rapidly as a mancould speak.… … y ROMAN WAXED TABLET The present method of binding tlat books probably originated with these old tablets that the educated slaves in the families of public men werecalled into service to duplicate copies for circulation. Altho the Emperor .\ugustus, who reigned in Rome atthe beginning of the…
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