
James M. Wells
Contributor
LOCATION: Chicago, IL, United States
Former Vice President and Emeritus Custodian, John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, Newberry Library, Chicago. Author of The Scholar Printers; "Book Typography in the U.S.A." in Book Typography in Europe and the U.S.
Primary Contributions (1)

Typography, the design, or selection, of letter forms to be organized into words and sentences to be disposed in blocks of type as printing upon a page. Typography and the typographer who practices it may also be concerned with other, related matters—the selection of paper, the choice of ink, the…
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