Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Invention of Printing: The Cutting and Casting of Types in Relation to Their Design -- A Font of Type and its Case: The Typographical Point: Point-Set and Lining Types -- The Latin Alphabet and its Development up to the Invention of Printing -- Types of the Fifteenth Century in Germany -- Types of the Fifteenth Century in Italy -- Types of the Fifteenth Century in France -- Types of the Fifteenth Century in the Netherlands--Holland and Belgium -- Types of the Fifteenth Century in Spain -- Types of the Fifteenth Century in England -- The Aldine Italic -- A Word on Type Specimens -- German Types: 1500-1800 -- Examples of German Printing -- XVI Century -- XVII Century -- XVIII Century -- German Foundries and Specimens -- Italian Types: 1500-1800 -- Examples of Italian Printing -- XVI Century -- XVII Century -- XVIII Century -- Italian Foundries and Specimens -- French Types: 1500-1800 -- Examples of French Printing -- XVI Century -- XVII Century -- XVIII Century -- Royal Types and the Imprimerie Royale -- The Fournier Family -- French Foundries and Specimens -- Notes to Volume I of This Edition -- Types of the Netherlands: 1500-1800 -- The Work of the Plantin Press -- The Elzevir Editions -- Other Examples of Netherlands Printing -- XVI Century -- XVII Century -- XVIII Century -- Netherlands Foundries and Specimens -- Spanish Types: 1500-1800 -- Examples of Spanish Printing -- XVI Century -- XVII Century -- XVIII Century -- Spanish Foundries and Specimens -- English Types: 1500-1800 -- From Pynson to William Caslon -- William Caslon and the Caslon Foundry -- John Baskerville -- Wilson, Fry, Martin, and Other Founders -- Examples of English Printing -- XVI Century -- XVII Century -- XVIII Century -- Types Used in the American Colonies, and Some Early American Specimens -- Nineteenth Century "Classical" Types. Bodoni and the Didots -- The "Classical" Movement -- Giambattista Bodoni -- The Didot Family -- Nineteenth Century French Foundries and Specimens -- English Types: 1800-1844 -- Revival of Caslon and Fell Types -- English and American Revival of Early Type-Forms and its Effect on Continental Types -- England and the United States -- The Continent -- The Choice of Types for a Composing-Room -- Industrial Conditions of the Past and Their Relation to the Printer's Problem To-Day -- Early Conditions in the French Printing Industry -- Some Sixteenth Century Labour Troubles -- Printing at Paris in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- The Censorship -- Rate of Production, Hours of Labour, Etc..