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Walker Rumble follows the trail of the Swifts, a group of colourful compositors who became famous by winning typesetting races. Tellingly, at the same time that the most celebrated contests were taking place, technological and cultural forces were threatening the Swifts's way of life.
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Walker Rumble is the editor and publisher of Oat City Press in East Providence, Rhode Island. The author of numerous articles on the history of printing, Rumble holds a doctorate in American history and has worked as a compositor and type manager.
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- VerlagUniversity of Virginia Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2003
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. First Edition. A crisp clean first edition/publishing, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-l ib. In a lively and colorful manner, Walker Rumble captures the excitement and suspense of typesetting races and the men and women who participated in the m. In doing so, he recovers a little-known and fascinating corner of Americ an life. (Michael Winship, University of Texas, Austin, author of American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century ) [Walker Rumble] uses shop-floor savvy and a doctoral background in history to conjure a vivid lost world of irreverent, often hard-drinking Swifts who composed fast and died young, lead dust and tuberculosis getting many of t hem before 40. (Chronicle of Higher Education ) The Swifts makes a notable contribution to the narrow slice of nineteenth-c entury American history on which Rumble focuses. It is a model of clarit y and inclusion. (Henry Petroski, author of The Evolution of Useful Thingsa nd The Pencil ) About the Author Walker Rumble is the editor and publisher of Oat City Press in East Providence, Rhode Island. The author of numerous articles on the history of printing, Rumble holds a doctorate in American history and has worked as a compositor and type manager. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RWARE0000022227
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