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PT Printing Types Their History, Forms & Use

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Figure 335

Black-letter: W. Thorowgood’s Specimen, London

1824

…in the specimen of William Thorowgood (Thorne’s successor)…the new styles are triumphant.

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Printing Types is a comprehensive history of Western printing and typography from the 15th century to the early 20th century.

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Prefaces to the First and Second Editions
Introduction

I. The Invention of Printing: The Cutting and Casting of Types in Relation to their Design
II. A Font of Type and its Case: The Typographical Point: Point-Set and Lining Types
III. The Latin Alphabet and its Development up to the Invention of Printing
IV. Types of the Fifteenth Century in Germany
V. Types of the Fifteenth Century in Italy
VI. Types of the Fifteenth Century in France
VII. Types of the Fifteenth Century in The Netherlands—Holland and Belgium
VIII. Types of the Fifteenth Century in Spain
IX. Types of the Fifteenth Century in England
X. The Aldine Italic
XI. A Word on Type Specimens
XII. German Types: 1500–1800
XIII. Italian Types: 1500–1800
XIV. French Types: 1500–1800
XV. Types of The Netherlands: 1500–1800
XVI. Spanish Types: 1500–1800
XVII. English Types: 1500–1800
XVIII. Types used in the American Colonies, and some Early American Specimens
XIX. Nineteenth Century “Classical” Types. Bodoni and the Didots
XX. English Types: 1800–1844
XXI. Revival of Caslon and Fell Types
XXII. English and American Revival of Early Type-Forms and its Effect on Continental Types
XXIII. The Choice of Types for a Composing-Room
XXIV. Industrial Conditions of the Past and their Relation to the Printer’s Problem To-Day

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