Early Printer / Typografer

Nicolas Jenson (pic)
French printer/typographer, 
Printed 150 books, established a lasting reputation for his types and the money he made
like the work on Archetypal Roman Typeface 1475 (pic)

William Caxton (pic)
English printer/typographer
It was in Bruges, that Caxton printed the first book in English in 1475 (pic)

Anton Koberger and Albrecht Duerer: The Nuremberg Chronicle (pic)
Anton Koberger German successful publisher/printer, produced nuremberg Chronicle in 1493.
Albrecht Duerer painter/printmaker/typographer maded 1,809 woodcut illustrations (with many repeted uses)

The Nuremberg Chronicle was first published in Latin on 12 July 1493 in the city of Nuremberg. 
This was quickly followed by a German translation on 23 December 1493

Aldus Manutius and the Typnerotomachoa Poliphili (pic)
Italian printer/publisher Aldus Manutius 
Worked on the Romans, practiced of making the capitals shorter than the ascending letters of the lower case. 
ex. ‘Typnerotomachoa Poliphili’, printed in 1499
As the fifteenth century ended, printing was well established , but calligraphy was by no means a dying influence. As more people learned to read, more learned to write, the sixteenth century was the age of the great manuals for handwriting.