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Printer's Grammar

Name: Printer's Grammar
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 04769196
Price: 42.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: John Smith
ISBN: 9781108073431

John Smith

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04769196

Publishers Cambridge University Press, April 2014

The author of this 1755 work is unknown - John Smith may not even have been his real name - but inte... Full description

Libristo code: 04769196

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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.