Printer''s Grammar - Librarie

This 1755 work describes the typesetting of books, from the formation of type to imposing and correcting.

List of contents

To the reader; 1. Of roman, italic, and black letter printing; 2. On the different bodies and sizes of printing letter; 3. Of a fount of a letter, considered in the same order as with letter-founders; 4. Of a complete fount of letter, considered as with printers; 5. Of the appurtenances to founts of letter; 6. Of the names of letter, and the bearings to each other; 7. Of abridging, or shortening of words, in Latin; 8. Of distributing, and laying of cases; 9. Of composing; 10. Of imposing; 11. Of correctors, and correcting; 12. Observations upon Greek, and Hebrew; 13. Of sundry alphabets, signs, symbols, and characters.

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Product details

• Authors: John Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9781108073431
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07343-1
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Literary studies: general