PREFACE.
 

HIS book is an attempt to show both the present and   past  conditions

of  the  printer's   and   bookmaker's   arts,   with   other   matters   related

%^    thereto,   in  a form  convenient  for  reference.     It  contains  a greater

quantity of  interesting   and  valuable .matter 'upon  the subjects than

any preceding work, of whatever kind or nature.    Each. ! pic has been fully

and thouglitfnlly elacidated.

Several dictionaries of printing antedate this. Those of Savage, Ring wait
and Southward in English, and Waldow in German, are all valuable; but,
as in the history of English lexicogTa]3hy, bhe later books liad an advantage
over the earlier, both as to plan and in m-atter, so this work has been able
to ])rofit by their stroiig points and avoid their defects. There is now a
continual succession of writers upon typography, some dealing with its practical
aspects and cithers with its historical and antiquarian relations. Miich is now
c;ontributed to the trade press. More tlian a hirndred volumes of srch
newspapers luive been read, and their valuable articles have been sunrmarized
for this dictionary, l^jgother with those, a multitude of minor paiyiphlei-s,
trade annoiuicoments and  other publications have  been  consulted.

Ajnong the authorities which have been particularly valuable but are not
iiienti(jned above are Hansard's "^^Typographia," Reed's "Old English Letter
Foundries," Timperley's ''Encyclopaedia/' North's '^Report," Hudsoii's '''His¬
tory of Journalism," Southward's "Typograpli.la," De Vinne's "'Inventiou of
Printing," De Vinne's "Price-List-," Thoma.s's "History of Printing," Faiih
Biann's   "Buchdruckerkunst,"  Jacobi's  "Vocabulary," Greswell's  "Annals of