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typography|taɪp-, tɪˈpɒgrəfɪ|
Also 7 tipo-.
[a. F. typographie (1577 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. mod.L. typographia (B. Veronensis, 1493), f. Gr. τύπος type + -γραϕία writing: see typo- and -graphy. So Pg. typographia, Sp. and It. tipografia.]
1. The art or practice of printing.
1641Evelyn Diary 28 Aug., The happy Monke whom they report to have been the first inventor of Typography. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 34 Those diminutive, and pamphlet Treaties.., pieces maintaining rather Typography then verity. 1679C. Nesse Antichrist 94 Typography or publick printing, a rare engine for communicating the knowledge of the truth. 1759Johnson Idler No. 69. ⁋3 Caxton taught us typography about the year 1474. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. vi, I consider those printed Paper Aprons, worn by the Parisian Cooks, as a new vent, though a slight one, for Typography. 1875Scrivener Lect. Text N.T. 3 The first fruit of typography, the beautiful Latin Bible known as Cardinal Mazarin's.
†b. A printing establishment, a press. Obs.
1660in Blackstone Let. to Dr. Randolph 21 May 1757, 20 The overplus of the money..to be imployed in setting up and maintaining a learned typographie.
2. The action or process of printing; esp. the setting and arrangement of types and printing from them; typographical execution; hence, the arrangement and appearance of printed matter.
1697G. Keith Sec. Narr. Proc. Turn.-Hall 39 A Literal Fault in the Typography, as for read it was printed real. 1793Boswell Johnson (ed. 2) Advert., The typography of both editions does honour to the press. 1817Cobbett Wks. XXXII. 8 My name is placed in large characters,..here, merely in the typography of the thing, is a proof that [etc.]. 1853Humphreys Coin-Coll. Man. xxvi. (1876) 405 Whose book is a fine monument of the typography of the period. 1900Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Apr. 160 The typography is clear.
b. transf. Printed matter; letterpress. rare.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 53 To catalogue all those Printers who are found frequently offending, and forbidd the importation of their whole suspected typography.
†3. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1755Johnson, Typography, 1, emblematical, figurative, or hieroglyphical representation. |