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Chinese type
The world’s first description of movable type refers to type made of baked clay by Bi Sheng in the 1040s (see 40). The oldest surviving works produced with type date ...
Estienne Roger
(b Caen, 1665 or 1666; d Amsterdam, 7 July 1722).French music printer and publisher. He moved from Normandy to Amsterdam in 1685 as a result of Protestant persecution, and ...
library education
Although trained custodians have managed libraries for as long as libraries have existed, formal library education did not begin until the 19th century. At the ancient Alexandrian Library, caretakers ...
movable type Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
An individual piece or set of pieces of type (see
press
1. (printing press) A method of producing written (or illustrated) texts by applying ink to movable type or embossed engravings and pressing these onto sheets of paper, initially using a ...
reglet
A strip of oil-soaked wood used when printing with movable type, placed between lines of letters to create interlinear spacing. Reglets are typically 3 4 in. high and vary in point size from 6- to ...
Samseong Museum of Publishing
Founded in Seoul in 1990 by the Samseong Publishing Co. The museum displays a permanent collection of woodblocks, old and rare books, movable type, and printers’ tools, along with temporary ...
stereotyping
The process of making cast-metal copies of a relief printing surface, such as a forme of type or a woodblock illustration. Various methods have been used, all of which result ...
