A compendium of key facts in the history of all aspects of the art of printing. Clearly in so wide a field, which includes not only the history of the invention of printing, of its practitioners and of its spread throughout Europe and the world, but also of printing machinery, of type foundries, of type design, and of letter forms, of technical processes in printing and of book and newspaper illustration, to mention but some of the topics covered, great care has had to be exercised both in the selection from this mass of material and in its presentation...