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ITC BODONI<br />

SEVENTY-TWO<br />

BOOK<br />

48/5 6<br />

ITC BODONI<br />

SEVENTY-TWO<br />

BOOK ITALIC<br />

48/56<br />

ITC BODONI<br />

SEVENTY-TWO<br />

BOLD<br />

4 8/5 6<br />

ITC BODONI<br />

SEVENTY-TWO<br />

BOLD ITALIC<br />

4 8 /5 6<br />

ITC BODONI<br />

SEVENTY-TWO<br />

BOOK<br />

3 6/44<br />

PRESENTING<br />

ITC BODONI<br />

ITC BODONI SEVENTY-TWO<br />

This essay is the fruit of man<br />

y years' assiduous labour-a r<br />

eal labour of love-th the seri)<br />

ice of the art ofprinting. Prin<br />

ting is the final outcome o<br />

f man's most beautiful, in<br />

geniottc and usefid invent/<br />

on. that I mean, of writing.<br />

and its most valuable form where it i<br />

s required to turn out many copies of<br />

AN EXCERPT FROM G. B. BODONI'S PREFACE TO THE MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO OF 1818. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION PUBLISHED BY ELKIN MATHEWS LTD., LONDON, 1925.<br />

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