rare. [f. as TYPOGRAPH-ER. + -IST.] One versed in the history or art of printing; a student of typography.
1890. Athenæum, 27 Sept., 412/1. [The origin of printing] seems still to excite strange passion in the minds of German and Dutch typographists…. The grouping of [printing] types and the investigation of their evolution and relationship is the ultima ratio of the typographist.
So Typographize v. (nonce-wd.), trans. to treat typographically, to describe in print.
1811. Byron, Bards & Rev., liii. (ed. 5), note. He topographised and typographised King Priam’s dominions.
