Posts Tagged ‘C.S. Glassco’

July 29

posted on 29 July 2010, under A Printer’s Almanac

The typographical equivalent of the one-armed paper hanger is undoubtedly the left-handed compositor, and for five centuries the term has been one of derision. “How many readers of The Inland Printer,” asked Sam G. Sloane in 1888, “ever saw a left-handed typesetter? By this I mean a typesetter who picks up the types, places them […]

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