Abraham Garton

Abraham Garton was a Jewish printer who printed the first dated Hebrew book in Europe in 1475.

Garton's first book was Rashi's commentary on the written Torah.

Between 1469 and 1472 three brothers, Obadiah, Menasseh, and Benjamin of Rome, were active as the first Hebrew typographers.

Six works are positively known to have come off their press, among which was the first, albeit undated edition of Rashi's commentary.

Nonetheless, the 1475 edition Abraham Garton created and employed, for the first time, a typeface based on a Sephardic semicursive hand.