I am interested in the history of printing and this short and beautifully made short book was a nice little introduction to the various machines which transfer ink to paper to enable us to read it. It got a little in the weeds for me occasionally (complex descriptions of how a printing system worked which were hard for me to visualize) and there’s a LOT of vocabulary. Overall, glad I read it and Glenn was definitely the guy to write this.
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Six Centuries of Type and Printing
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