Shakspere Typography (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Shakspere Typography To-day, amid the whirr of many presses, and the hurrying to and fro of the printing office, the printer finds little or no time for literary pur suits, despite the fact that printing is, in very truth, the handmaid of literature. It is the more admirable, there fore, when a successful printer attains to a degree of scholarship particu larly scholarship in mat ters that enlighten and dignify his own handi craft. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.