Typographia : an historical sketch of the origin and progress of the art of printing

Author(s)

• Hansard, T. C. (Thomas Curson)

Bibliographic Information

Typographia : an historical sketch of the origin and progress of the art of printing

Thomas Curson Hansard

（Book design and production, Collection 1 . Pre-Victorian British typography and printers' manuals）（Nico editions : classic works on the history of the book）

Thoemmes , Kinokuniya, 1998

• v. 1
• v. 2

Note

"This is a reprint, in two volumes, of the 1825 edition"--T.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Near-contemporaries William Caslon, the type-founder and John Baskerville, the printer, stand as two of the great figures in 18th-century British printing. This set of eight volumes includes an early memoir of Baskerville, and an account of Caslon and his firm, and both figures appear in Reed's work. Another text in the set is Moxon's "Mechanick Exercises" which covers the full range of the technicalities of printing practice, including compositor, corrector, pressman and warehouseman, as well as including a detailed explanation of type-founding. Smith's "Grammar" was in part based on Moxon but itself became a model for many subsequent grammars. Hansard's history encompasses paper and typefounding, as well as printing, presses, and printing ink. Savage's "Dictionary" brings history and printing up to the beginning of the Victorian era. Finally, Robert's early account of the history of the printer's marks offers a picture of the trade itself.

Table of Contents

• "Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handyworks Applied to the Art of Printing", Joseph Moxon (1683), ed. Theodore Low de Vinne (1896), 464pp.
• "Typographia - an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing", Thomas Carson Hansard (1825), 2 vols., 430/561pp.
• "John Baskerville - Type Founder and Printer, 1706-1775", Josiah Henry Benton (1914) 78pp, bound with "Two Centuries of Typefounding Annals of the Letter Foundry Established by William Caslon in 1720" (1920), John Findlay McRae, 110pp
• "The Printer's Grammar...", (1755), John Smith, 320pp.
• "A History of the Old English Letter Foundries..." (1887), Talbot Baines Reed, 394pp., bound with "A Dissertation of English Typographical Founders and Founderies" (1798), Edward Rowe Mores, 91pp.
• "A Dictionary of the Art of Printing" (1841), William Savage, 824pp.
• "Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography" (1893), William Roberts, 280pp.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA37772795
• ISBN:
  • 1855065932
  • 1855065932
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bristol,Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v. (xvi, 939 p.)
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA37769327
  • BA42333342