Summary:
Early years of type and printing techniques
Gutenberg and the printing press
Supply and demand for books
-Greeks and Romans proceed
-capitalas quadrata (square capitals)
-cardin miniscules (Alquinn of York)
-1400s woodblock printing
-xylography (woodblock printing)
-paper needed for efficiency
-Manual on the Art of Dying
-early example of church propaganda
-necessary for printing:
1. must be growing middle class
2. must have students in expanding university system
3. increased literacy
-all equates to demand
-books were rare, extremely valuable
-Gutenberg credited for printing press
-he used Blackletter or Textura typefaces
-Gutenberg 1453 teaches process for making mirrors
-written communication to advent of moveable type
-Gutenberg gave us ligature for 'fi'
-Incunabula refers to first 50 years of printing
-Fleurons are printers' decorative elements
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