Also 7 tipo-. [a. F. typographie (1577 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. mod.L. typographia (B. Veronensis, 1493), f. Gr. τύπος type + -γραφία writing: see TYPO- and -GRAPHY, So Pg. typographia, Sp. and It. tipografia.]
1. The art or practice of printing.
1641. Evelyn, Diary, 28 Aug. The happy Monke whom they report to have been the first inventor of Typography.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. viii. 34. Those diminutive, and pamphlet Treaties…, pieces maintaining rather Typography then verity.
1679. C. Nesse, Antichrist, 94. Typography or publick printing, a rare engine for communicating the knowledge of the truth.
1759. Johnson, Idler, No. 69, ¶ 3. Caxton taught us typography about the year 1474.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. vi. I consider those printed Paper Aprons, worn by the Parisian Cooks, as a new vent, though a slight one, for Typography.
1875. Scrivener, Lect. Text N. T., 3. The first fruit of typography, the beautiful Latin Bible known as Cardinal Mazarin’s.
† b. A printing establishment, a press. Obs.
1660. in Blackstone, Lett. to Dr. Randolph, 21 May, 1757, 20. The overplus of the money … to be imployed in setting up and maintaining a learned typographie.
2. The action or process of printing; esp. the setting and arrangement of types and printing from them; typographical execution; hence, the arrangement and appearance of printed matter.
1697. G. Keith, Sec. Narr. Proc. Turn.-Hall, 39. A Literal Fault in the Typography, as for read it was printed real.
1793. Boswell, Johnson (ed. 2), Advert. The typography of both editions does honour to the press.
1817. Cobbett, Wks., XXXII. 8. My name is placed in large characters,… here, merely in the typography of the thing, is a proof that [etc.].
1853. Humphreys, Coin-Coll. Man., xxvi. (1876), 405. Whose book is a fine monument of the typography of the period.
1900. Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.), April, 160. The typography is clear.
b. transf. Printed matter; letterpress. rare.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 53. To catalogue all those Printers who are found frequently offending, and forbidd the importation of their whole suspected typography.
† 3. (See quot.) Obs. rare–0.
1755. Johnson, Typography, 1, emblematical, figurative, or hieroglyphical representation.
