Giovanni Mardersteig: Quick Facts

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Giambattista Bodoni

Italian printer

Firmin Didot

French printer and typesetter

Stanley Morison

English typographer

Sir Emery Walker

English printer

Frederic W. Goudy

American printer and typographer

S.H. de Roos

Dutch typographer

Simon de Colines

French printer

Nicolas Jenson

French printer

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson

British book designer

William Morris

British artist and author

Jan Tschichold

German typographer and author

William Caslon

English printer

Bruce Rogers

American typographer

John Baskerville

English printer

Sir Francis Meynell

English designer

W.A. Dwiggins

American artist

Pierre-Simon Fournier

French engraver

Claude Garamond

French publisher

Geoffroy Tory

French printer

Pierre François Didot

French publisher and printer