[Gutenberg 54476] • 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

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Martyrs in typographic history - Ecclesiastical and politi cal conditions in Europe from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries - A book of treaties on the intended marriage of Queen Elizabeth - Oliver Cromwell encourages printing and literature - First edition of Milton's Paradise Lost Thomas Roycroft prints Brian Walton's Polyglot Bib]? The first book published in England by subscription - Paper for the work allowed to come in diity free - Cardinal Mazarin discovers a copy iof Gutenberg's Forty-two Line Bible Chap-books and something about them - Poor representa tives of the art of typography - Woodcuts and type bat tered and worn - Peddled by chapmen - Dicey books Broadsides - Puritans land at Charlestown and begin to settle Cambridge and Boston - Rev. Jesse Glover solicits money for press and types - Contracts with Stephen Daye to come to new country - Rev. Glover dies - Daye reaches Cambridge with outfit - Begins printing in 1639 - The first work - The first book - Poorly printed - President Dunster of Harvard College appoints Samuel Green to succeed Daye - Another press and types added - An inventory - The printing office discontinued - Printing in the colonies of Massachusetts and Virginia - Pennsylvania second English colony to have typography - William Bradford prints an almanac - Bradford arrested in Philadelphia for printing an address - Type pages as evidence - Pied by a juryman Bradford goes to New York - First printshop there Official printer - Publishes the first New York newspaper Benjamin Franklin - Indentured to his brother J ames - The New England Courant - James is imprisoned - Benjamin becomes the publisher - The brothers disagree - Benjamin ships to New York - Meets William Bradford and goes to Philadelphia - Secures employment with Samuel Keimer Leaves for England to buy printing equipment - Goes to work in London - Returns to Philadelphia and starts a printing ofiichone of the first jobs - Publishes Poor Richard's Almanack - Proverbs widely quoted - Sells his shop to David Hall - Quaintness of Colonial typography Comments on reproductions - Page from a Caslon specimen book of 1764.

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