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Typography   /təpˈɑgrəfi/   Listen
noun
Typography  n.  
1.
The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation. (Obs.)
2.
The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.





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"Typography" Quotes from Famous Books



... we have made the following progress. We have greatly increased the national typography; the public gardens have been put in order; the museum repaired, and enriched with minerals and a gallery of good pictures,—some of which were purchased, some were already in the public treasury, and others were my private property, which I have ...
— Journal of a Voyage to Brazil - And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 • Maria Graham
... space in the printed text. Punctuation at the end of entries was silently regularized, and missing or invisible periods (full stops) after standard abbreviations such as "m." or "pl." were silently supplied. Other errors in punctuation or typography are listed separately, after the more ...
— A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - For the Use of Students • John R. Clark Hall
... told us long ago in his whimsical way that the importance of the Acts of the French Philosophes recorded in whole acres of typography is fast exhausting itself, that the famed Encyclopaedical Tree has borne no fruit, and that Diderot the great has contracted into Diderot the easily measurable. The humoristic method is a potent instrument for working such contractions and expansions at will. ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley
... time of the first great exhibition in 1851, due to a letter I wrote to the Bishop of London on November 22, 1850, urging such a universal psalm. Mr. Brettell, a printer, issued this curiosity of typography: for it has all the strange types which the Bible Society could lend; and several other, versions than the fifty published (some being duplicated) are in a great volume before me, unprinted because neither England, nor Germany, nor America could supply types for sundry out-of-the-way ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... translated Volney's 'Ruins' into English, made preparations for writing histories of the American and French revolutions, and expanded his 'Vision of Columbus' into a volume which as 'The Columbiad'—a beautiful specimen of typography—was published in Philadelphia in 1807 and republished in London. The poem was held to have increased Barlow's fame; but it is stilted and monotonous, and 'Hasty Pudding' has done more ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner


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