Firmin didot history of thanksgiving

          Didot has often been regarded as the first Modern typeface....

          Firmin Didot

          French printer, engraver, and type founder

          Firmin Didot (French:[fiʁmɛ̃dido]; 14 April 1764 – 24 April 1836) was a French printer, engraver, and type founder.

          Early life

          Firmin Didot was born in Paris into a family of printers founded by François Didot, the father of 11 children.

          We are celebrating this year the centenary of his birth – He died in , the 20 th year of our marriage.

        1. The most famous of the Didot typefaces were created between by Firmin Didot.
        2. Didot has often been regarded as the first Modern typeface.
        3. In the first volume of his history concludes.
        4. Lynne David Firmin-Didot remembers her husband Pierre Firmin-Didot after his th birthday, with additional tributes.

          5. Firmin was one of his grandchildren. The family's paper manufactory was located at Essonnes, a town c. 30 km southeast of Paris near Corbeil, which had notable paper factories.

          Work

          Didot invented the word "stereotype", which in printing refers to the metal printing plate created for the actual printing of pages (as opposed to printing pages directly with movable type), and used the process extensively, revolutionizing the book trade by his cheap editions.

          His manufactory was a place of pilgrimage for the printers of the world.

          He first used the process in his edition of Callet’s Tables of Logarithms (1795), in which he secured an accuracy till