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Some types that were made in the first decade of the 19th century by the punchcutter Richard Austin for use by the University Press at Cambr...

Some such heading seems appropriate for a post about the inaugural use of a letter that has been produced for the refurbished building tha...

Note: this post is now followed by a Postscript that its readers are recommended to look at. The ‘commercial at’, the character @, has...

The slate headstones of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire are the glories of their churchyards. Much of the stone came from the quarries o...

This type on a body of about 18 points appears in the big type specimen book of the Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1845. It is the first known ...

Was the sitter for this portrait Giambattista Bodoni, whose name was written on the back? And can we believe the claim that the artist wa...

It is well known that the ‘Garamond’ types, of which the use was initiated at the Imprimerie nationale, Paris, during first years of the 20t...