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Typography   /təpˈɑgrəfi/   Listen
noun
Typography  n.  
1.
The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation. (Obs.)
2.
The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.





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"Typography" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the Domus Anglorum or English factory, from 1446 to 1476, and probably put in the press here the earliest English book printed, tho strong grounds have been adduced in favor of Cologne. Colard Mansion, the great printer of Bruges at that date, was one of the leaders in the art of typography.... ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various
... But that is a trifle. It would involve much hard and useless work to make war on the anachronisms of historical portraits, and we are not to judge of historical works by their engraved decorations. Here, however, the picture is sober truth itself to what the inquiring reader finds in the typography. After the descriptive geographical introduction common in old histories, the real commencement comes ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... ready about it all, and the new portions print darker and more smudgily than the old, except toward the left, where they have missed ink and indented. A friend of mine, who knows something of the old typography, has suggested to me that the machinery actually in use for the New Paper was damaged that night, and that on the morning of the Change Banghurst borrowed a neighboring office—perhaps in financial ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells
... by perseverance they continually send explorers and ambassadors over the whole earth, who learn thoroughly the customs, forces, rule and histories of the nations, bad and good alike. These they apply all to their own republic, and with this they are well pleased. I learnt that cannon and typography were invented by the Chinese before we knew of them. There are magistrates, who announce the meaning of the pictures, and boys are accustomed to learn all the sciences, without toil and as if for pleasure; ...
— Ideal Commonwealths • Various
... long ago in his whimsical way that the importance of the Acts of the French Philosophes recorded in whole acres of typography is fast exhausting itself, that the famed Encyclopaedical Tree has borne no fruit, and that Diderot the great has contracted into Diderot the easily measurable. The humoristic method is a potent instrument for working such contractions and expansions at will. The ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley


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