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Golding Map Press

Golding Map Press in its closed position

Wood Engraving Workbench

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Wood Engraver's Workbench

Tools used for wood engraving

Wood Engraving by Timothy Cole

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Scale of Wood Engraving by Timothy Cole

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Circular Quadrats

Setting type on a curve

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woodcut transfer tools

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Type high gauge in use

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Testing a wood block for woodcuts

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rogers-newspaper-building-1918-thompson-extract

An extract of two pages concerning the Thompson from Jason Rogers’ Newspaper Building: Applications of Efficiency to Editing, to Mechanical Production, to Circulation and Advertising . (NY: Harper and Brothers, 1918)

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legros-grant-1916-thompson

Legros and Grant’s 1916 Typographical Printing Surfaces remains the most comprehensive technical survey of all aspects of type-making.

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