John Johnson

1777 – 1848

John Johnson, printer, "wrote the book" on typography, typesetting, presses, and the business of printing. His 1824 "Typographia : or the Printers Instructor; including an account of the origin of printing; with biographical notices of the printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the sixteenth century; a series of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesday characters: together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art" was the definitive work of its time.

• Reject
• A Collection of All the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, Or Rescripts ... Concerning the Government, Discipline and Worship of the Church of England, from Its First Foundation to the Conquest, that Have Hitherto Been Publish'd in the Latin and Saxoni
• Cheap Tricks and Class Acts
• Prof. E. McSquared's Calculus Primer
• Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor
• Typographia, Or, The Printers' Instructor
• Typographia, or, The printers' instructor
• Abridgment of Johnson's Typographia
• Abridgment of Johnson's Typographia
• An ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern, from the birth of Christ to the beginning of the eighteenth century
• J. Johnson, typ
• Peppermint Twist