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Rh 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)