Printing Types

Their History, Forms & Use

A Study in Survivals

First and second editions by Daniel Berkeley Updike, 1922, 1937

Digital edition by Nicholas Rougeux, 2025

    1. Prefaces to the First and Second Editions
    2. Introduction
  2. I The Invention of Printing: The Cutting and Casting of Types in Relation to their Design
  3. II A Font of Type and its Case: The Typographical Point: Point-Set and Lining Types
  4. III The Latin Alphabet and its Development up to the Invention of Printing
  5. IV Types of the Fifteenth Century in Germany
  6. V Types of the Fifteenth Century in Italy
  7. VI Types of the Fifteenth Century in France
  8. VII Types of the Fifteenth Century in The Netherlands—Holland and Belgium
  9. VIII Types of the Fifteenth Century in Spain
  10. IX Types of the Fifteenth Century in England
  11. X The Aldine Italic
  12. XI A Word on Type Specimens
  13. XII German Types: 1500–1800
  14. XIII Italian Types: 1500–1800
  15. XIV French Types: 1500–1800
  16. XV Types of The Netherlands: 1500–1800
  17. XVI Spanish Types: 1500–1800
  18. XVII English Types: 1500–1800
  19. XVIII Types used in the American Colonies, and some Early American Specimens
  20. XIX Nineteenth Century “Classical” Types. Bodoni and the Didots
  21. XX English Types: 1800–1844
  22. XXI Revival of Caslon and Fell Types
  23. XXII English and American Revival of Early Type-Forms and its Effect on Continental Types
  24. XXIII The Choice of Types for a Composing-Room
  25. XXIV Industrial Conditions of the Past and their Relation to the Printer’s Problem To-Day
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