Aside from the beautifully typeset Declaration of Independence? (not passed or signed on the fourth, I know, but at least it says, July 4, doesn't it?)

They "typeset" the Declaration? I always thought it was calligraphic.

:)

Oh, yeah, you're right! Duh…
Here's an image… written out of course:
http://ddl.dyc.edu/~kappadelta/Declaration%20of%20Independence.gif
Reminds one of some new P22 font releases, eh?

Now I feel dumb! I won't go back and change my last post, though.

It was typeset, too.

1848
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto.
(according to the History Channel)
Tim

Will the Americans on the board will complain if I criticize the typography of the printed version? The measure is far too wide, for one thing.

Were typographic principles the same 230 years ago? I know newspapers used much smaller type, as small as agate, which is about 5 point. Any comments?

Say, today (04.07.2006) it was a presentation of Yuri Gordon's book about cyrillic letters in Moscow. :)http://www.artlebedev.ru/news/2006/04.07/