a. [f. as prec. + -AL: see -ICAL.]
1. Of or pertaining to typography or printing; connected or dealing with printing.
1593. J. Udall, Key Holy Tongue, Printer’s Note. The Typographical faultes, which perhaps haue scaped vs.
1611. in Coryat’s Crudities, Pref. Verses d vij. To Topographicall Typographicall Thomas.
1677. W. Hubbard, Narrative, Pref. Faults … such as are meerly Typographical.
1757. Blackstone, Lett. to Dr. Randolph, 21 May, 11. Mr. Mussendine’s typographical character was entirely forgot in the university.
1790. V. Knox, Winter Even. (ed. 2), II. xxxiii. 229. That providential discovery, the typographical art.
1837. Hallam, Hist. Lit., I. iii. § 141. Some cities … had acquired a typographical reputation somewhat disproportioned to the local demand for books.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., II. xi. 267. There were no stars, or other typographical symbols, indicating the passages omitted.
1874. Anderson, Missions Amer. Bd., IV. xxxviii. 345. One of the most beautiful books, in its typographical execution, in the Arabic language.
b. Produced or expressed by typography or in print; printed.
1803. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), I. 50/2. Not … a picture presenting us with an interesting epitome of the whole; but a typographical plan, detailing, with minute and fatiguing precision, every trifling circumstance, and every subordinate feature.
1806. in R. S. Fisher, Amer., II. (1854), 323. That typographical thunder … has been muffled on this side of the Atlantic.
1868. Pall Mall G., 23 July, 3. Typographical emphasis was given to the following advantages.
2. (See quot.) Obs. rare–0.
1755. Johnson, Typographical, 1, emblematical; figurative. [Hence in later dicts.]
