Typographia, or The Printers' Instructor : Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from (Paperback)

1. Properties of types; 2. Different sizes of letters; 3. A fount of letter, as considered by letter-founders; 4. Rules; 5. Names of letter, and their bearings to each other; 6. Observations on composing; 7. Imposing; 8. Correctors and correcting; 9. Department of a reader; 10. Mathematical, algebraical, and geometrical characters; 11. Hebrew; 12. Alphabets of ancient languages; 13. Duty of an overseer; 14. The best means of expediting business; 15. On the construction of printing presses; 16. The business of a ware houseman; 17. Abstracts of the Acts relative to printers; 18. Compositors' and pressmen's scales of prices; 19. Of fine printing; 20. Alphabetical list of printers, etc.; 21. Technical terms; 22. Stereotype printing, steam and hand machines; Index.