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A short history of the art of printing in England (1877)

Powell, Arthur, b. 1853 · London : J. M. Powell, "Printers' Register" office · leaf 36

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ill give the reader someinsight into a printing office of the sixteenth century. In the first, the compositorseems to be a woman; she holds her stick in her right hand, and is picking upthe types with her left—an eccentricity that is probably not hers but the artists.In the second, which is sixty…

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