Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography

· 1940

This text is intended for users whose text readers cannot use the "real" (unicode/utf-8) version. A few letters such as "oe" have been unpacked, and curly quotes and apostrophes have been replaced with the simpler "typewriter" form. Words in +Greek+ or #Hebrew# have been transliterated. In quotations of older material, letters such as "e caudata" (e with "tail") are shown in braces as {e,} to avoid confusion with bracketed text. Where possible, text contained within illustrations of printers' marks has been transcribed. The text is shown on separate lines, corresponding to the original layout; captions--usually the printer's name--will appear on the same line as the word "Illustration". Not…

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