Excerpt from The Printer's Complete Guide: A Sketch of the History and Progress of Printing, to Its Present State of Improvement; Details of Its Several Departments; Numerous Schemes of Imposition; Modern Improvements in Stereotype, Presses, and Machinery, &C. &C It was not long before types were cast in other languages besides the Roman character. In 1480 the Italians cast a set of Greek types; and the same ingenious artists also cast the Hebrew characters, under the direction of two learned Rabbins, Joshua and Moses, whose works are dated in the Christian era, 14843. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.