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Early typography (1872)

Skeen, William, 1822?-1872 · Colombo, Ceylon : [William Skeen] · leaf 126

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out, leaving apertures exactly correspond-ing with the pages of type on the carriageof the press. The frisket when folded onto the tympans, and both turned downover the forme of types and run in underthe platten, preserves the sheet from contactwith any thing but the inked surface of thetypes, when… … EAELY TYPOGKAPHY. 123 One of the consequences that ensued onthe termination of the lawsuit with the Drit-zehens, was a stoppage of the progress of theinvention. Very probably Gutenberg, an im-poverished if not a disappointed man, feltcompelled to-lay his projects aside, and todevote himself, for a…

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