Tramp Printers: Adventures and forgotten paths once traced by wandering artisans of newspapering and typography - Softcover

Howells, John; Dearman, Marion

 
9780965097901: Tramp Printers: Adventures and forgotten paths once traced by wandering artisans of newspapering and typography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0965097900 ISBN 13: 9780965097901
Verlag: Discovery Press, 2006

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Beginning with the invention ofmovable type in the 15th century,itinerant artisans roamed the highwaysand byways of the world, workingwhere and when they pleased. It allended five centuries later, whencomputer typesetting replaced humans.Mark Twain, Bret Harte, HoraceGreely (along with legionsof much less famous printers) pliedtheir trade and enjoyed adventuresas tramp printers until it all suddenlyvanished in the mid 1970s.A sociological study, as seen throughthe eyes of tramp printers themselves.Footloose and carefree, theseadventurers enjoyed 500 years offreedom, working where and whenthey pleased. A vanished breed, todaythey live on through recollections,anecdotes, and memories of how itused to be, when printers workedwith “real type.”

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Verlag
Discovery Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0965097900
ISBN 13 
9780965097901
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
4
Anzahl der Seiten
290
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