Shakspere
&
Typography
By
William Blades
NEW YORK: Edited & Reprinted
by The Winthrop Press for The
American Type Founders Company
MD CCC XC VII
The INTRODUCTION
n the good old days when printing was better recognized as a mystery than as an art, one could call a printer ‘a man of letters’ without being guilty of a pun. Books were for the few then, and the man who would print them must be somewhat of a scholar himself.