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Born 1480
Died 1546 (aged 66)
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Nicolas Jenson
French printer
Bodoni, engraving
Giambattista Bodoni
Italian printer
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Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
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Geoffroy Tory
French printer
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William Morris
British artist and author
Times New Roman
Stanley Morison
English typographer
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Giovanni Mardersteig
Italian printer
Walker, Emery: Brooks's in the Olden Time
Sir Emery Walker
English printer
Goudy, Frederic W.
Frederic W. Goudy
American printer and typographer
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John Baskerville
English printer
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S.H. de Roos
Dutch typographer
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Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
British book designer
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Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
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Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
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Christophe Plantin
French printer
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Pierre-Simon Fournier
French engraver
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Claude Garamond
French publisher
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Jan Tschichold
German typographer and author
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William Caslon
English printer
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Bruce Rogers
American typographer