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The Printer's Grammar
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ISBN: 1107446090 1108073433 Year: 1755 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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The author of this 1755 work is unknown - John Smith may not even have been his real name - but internal evidence from the book suggests that he may have spent some time in northern Germany, and he also shows familiarity with aspects of French printing. Smith describes the typesetting of books but not the actual printing, so it is possible that he may have been a compositor or a printer's reader. The work is a comprehensive survey of all aspects of typecasting and composition, dealing with the formation of type, regular- and irregular-bodied letters, accents, kerning, upper and lower case, spacing, rules, braces and fleurons, and non-Roman fonts including Greek, Hebrew, black-letter, Old English, and Chinese, as well as mathematical and astronomical symbols and music. There are also sections on casting off copy, composing, imposing and correcting, giving a fascinating account of the eighteenth-century compositor's craft.

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The printer's grammar : wherein are exhibited, examined, and explained, the superficies, gradation, and properties of metaltypes, sundry alphabets, the figures of mathematical, astronomical, musical, and physical signs andmany other requisites for attaini
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Year: 1755 Publisher: London : Printed for the editor and sold by W.Owen,

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Printing --- Imprimerie


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The Printer's Grammar
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ISBN: 9781107446090 Year: 1755 Publisher: Place of publication unknown:Cambridge publisher unknown,Cambridge University Press

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