Index

Point system of measuring type

bodies, 225
Polyglot foundry, Dr Edmund Fry's,

25З
Posting Bills, and Fat types, 163
Printers, earliest, own typefounders,
3 ; wish of earliest, that their work
might be taken for that ofthe
scribes, 5 ; German, spread their
art all over Europe, 19

Ratdolt, Erhard, 218

Recognition, instant, of type faces, no
part of typographer's job, xxiv

Renchen, Ludwig, 214

Reversed or cameo types, 183 ; notes
on illustrations of, 260

Reyser, Georg, 212

Richelieu, Cardinal, 59

Rogers, Bruce, and mark of
successful typography, xiii ; use by,
of Jenson roman as model for his
Montaigne and Centaur types, 218

Romains du roi, 61,75.224,232

Roman type, Venetian, 19; old-face,

31
Ronde, 127
Rosart, Jacques François, based his

italics on Fournier le jeune's, 89;

copied latter's decorated types for

the Enschedé foundry, 147, 250
Rosselettus, Claudius, 223
Rotunda or Round-Text, 5,212
Round hand, new style of writing

developed in England in seventeenth

century, 63

Sans serif type, 179; notes on

illustrations of, 259
Savage, William, 163
Schreibschrift, 241
Schwabacher, 7,213,241
Script types, gothic or mediaeval, 113 ;

note on availability of gothic, 117;

notes on illustrations of gothic, 240;

Latin or Renaissance, 127; some

contemporary Latin or Renaissance,

143 ; notes on illustrations of Latin

or Renaissance, 245
Secretary, 115,243
Serifs, 103,267
Shaded types, no, 155 ; notes on

illustrations of, 252
Shading, see Stress or
Shadowed or three-dimensional types,

175 ; notes on illustrations of, 259
Shelley, George, and roman with

vertical stress, 226
Specimen books, typefounders,

and use of existing material, 262
Spira, John and Wendelin da, 21,218
Steele, Isaac, 253
Stencil types, 203
Stephenson, S &C, 147, 250
Stress or shading, George Shelley's

alphabet designed with vertical,

226; in typography, 264
Stubenvoll, Jean Henry, 241
Subiaco type, 21,217
Sweynheym, Conrad, 19

Texturas, 5,211

Thorne, Robert, 76,91,97,163,169,

231,235,255
Thorowgood, William, 169,191,195,

253,257,258
Thorp, Joseph, 267
Three-dimensional types, see

Shadowed or
Times New Roman, 238
Tide-pages, notes on early, 109
Trajan Column capitals, as bash for

more than one type design, 103
Transitional romans, see Intermediate

or, 59
Tuscan types, 183
Twentieth-Century types, 101 ;

notes on illustrations of, 237

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Index

Type Street foundry, 252

Typefounding, and printing,
separation of, 3 ; a text book on
the whole art of, 226

Types, printing, roughly divided
into two groups, xxi; printing
from movable, put professional
copyists out of business, 5 ; in
history of development of
type-forms seventeenth century
almost a blank, 59

Typewriter types, 205

Typographers, no part of their job
to be able to name at sight any type
specimen, xxiv; most European,
of his day seduced by Didot, 230

Unger, Johann Friedrich,

woodcutter, printer, typefounder,

215,241
Union Pearl, 147
Upper-Rhine type, 7; 213

USA, sans serif lower-case in early
use in, 179

Venbtian romans 21,29; notes

on illustrations of, 217
Vernacular types or Bastardas 7,

general note on 213
Vicentino, see Arrighi
Vicentino italics, 45
Voskens, Reinhard, 241

Walbaum, Justus Erich, 76,235
Wellington, Irene, 263
Wilson, Alexander, 65
Wittenberg Letter, 7,214
Writing, broad-nibbed pen, notes
on illustrations of, 263

Xylographic or woodcut block-
books 3 ; description of Biblia
Pauperum, 211

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