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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Cases.--Cases for holding Italic fonts, as distinguished from those containing Roman letters. When the font is not too large one case only is employed, usually with the capitals at the right and the lower case at the left, each of the boxes being somewhat compressed. Italica (Sp.).--Italic. Also called Cursiva and Bastardilla. Italicized.--Words or sentences in Italic--indicated in manuscript by a single line underneath the words which should be emphasized. Italy.--A country at the south of Europe, forming a long peninsula. The art of printing was taken up in Italy earlier than in any other country except that of its birthplace, Germany, and there it was most successful. Those who introduced the art were Sweinheym and Pannartz, two German printers, at Subiaco, in the year 1465. Two years after they went to Rome, where they did much work, but not prospering. In Venice the first printer was John de Spira, so called from the city in which he was born. When he died in 1470 he was succeeded by his brother Vindelin. Nicholas Jenson, another printer, began at Venice in 1471, and soon showed greater skill than his contemporaries or predecessors. In Milan Anthony Zarot, long regarded as the inventor of signatures, began in 1470. Three other towns took up the art in the same year--Foligno, by John Nummeister; Trevi, by John Reynard; and Verona, by John of Verona. The other cities which in the first years after its introduction began to print books were Bologna, Ferrara, Naples and Pavia in 1471; Fivizzano, Padua, Mantua, Mondovi, Jesi and Cremona in 1472; Parma, Brescia, Messina and Vicenza in 1473; Como, Turin and Genoa in 1474; Modena in 1475; Trent in 1476; Palermo, Ascoli and Lucca in 1477, and Casal in 1481. Cotton, in his Typographical Gazetteer, enumerates thi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130542585
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 644
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130542580
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1134 gr


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