[a. F. typographe (1554 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. med.L. typographus, f. Gr. τυπος (see TYPO-) + -γραφος (see -GRAPH). So Pg. typographo, Sp. and It. tipografo.]
1. A typographer or typographist.
1737. Ozell, Rabelais, III. 281. A Fault of Mr Typograph’s.
1833. Moore, Mem. (1854), VI. 329. I recollect having a little struggle with Simmons, my valuable Typograph, on this very point.
1880. (title) The Enemies of Books. By William Blades, Typograph.
2. A writing-machine for the blind in which pressure upon raised types causes the corresponding characters to be printed.
1820. Gentl. Mag., May, 446/1. A Duplex Typograph … enables the blind to receive and communicate ideas by means of letters, upon a principle adapted to the sense of feeling.
1851. Rep. Jurors, Exhibition of 1851, 311. Hughes … has exhibited a portable typograph or writing machine for the blind.
3. (See quot.)
1886. Science, 17 Sept., 252/1. There is now being perfected … a machine intended to dispense with type and type-setters in certain kinds of printing. The ‘standard typograph’ is the name selected for it…. The typograph is in reality a kind of type-writer, but, instead of printing upon paper, it produces indented or depressed characters upon a sheet of soft metal, from which an electrotype may be made.
