roman perfected by Jeiison at, in 1471, 85; italic and small capitals introduced by Aldvis Manutius at, in 1501, 85; orientals cut by Le Bé for printers of, 87; Jenson's death at, 365; thick-stemmed roman types at, 370
Villiers, Abbé de, extract from, 273
Virgil, or Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet, italic of Aldus first used in octavo edition of, 187, 270
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), French writer, Beaumarchais superintends complete edition of, in Baskerville types, 99
Voskens, Dirck, of Amsterdam, diamond type probably first made by, 67; supplies English printers with types, 92; foundry of, absorbed by Haarlem foundry, 92
Weed, Thurlow, a printer, newspaper proprietor, and public man, sketch of, 196
Wells, Darius, a New York printer, devotes himself to the manufacture of wooden type, 347
Wells, Horace, an American type-founder, sketch of, 221
White, Elihu, favors the Johnson
type-casting machine, 26 (note);
undertakes to make types with-
out experience, 102; moves his
type-foundry to New York, 102, -es-
tablishes branches in Buffalo and
Cincinnati, 102; his successors,
102; biographical sketch of, 222
Whittingham, Charles, founder of
the Chiswick Press, revives Cas-
lon old-style,98; sketch of, 199
Wilson, Alexander, a Scottish type-
founder, sketch of, 99
Wood, large types made from, 10
Woodcuts, the art of electrotyping
first used for, 18 (note), 219
Wood-engraving, early, 84
Worde, Wynkyn de, pupil and suc-
cessor of Caxton, 93; his later
types cut by French artists, 93 ;
many of his punches and types
brought from Rouen, 93; discov-
ery of some original punches of,
97; Moxon's model letters show
no important departure from
those used by, 300; Old English
the character first used by, 301 (note 1)
Zell, Ulric, on invention of type-making, 76 ; claims Gutenberg as inventor of printing, 78
Zinc, unsuitability of, as an alloy of type-metal, 34 (see also note)
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