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The Romance of Letterpress
5$64.95HARDCOVER KEEPSAKE
From Gutenberg’s invention in 1455 to Australia and America in the 1910s, the printing industry was essentially the same. Type was metal or wood, assembled into pages and printed with letterpress. Printing skillsets were the same no matter what the language or geographic location.
Thus, it was possible for a young man from Australia to make the trek to America just after the first decade of the 20th Century and work his way across the country. He could find work at the many weekly newspapers, small printers, or other print shops in towns and cities big and small…Frank Romano (Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology: President, Museum of Printing, Massachusetts, USA)
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The Top 100 Countries
0$39.95They say it’s a small world, a small world it isn’t. Planet Earth is a big place and full of infinite variety.
There are around 200 countries in the world, depending on how you count them. No one can ever visit them all, except for a few box-tickers. In this book, we have tried to give you a brief overview of most of the world’s countries and what makes them worth visiting. We actually rank 140 countries and look at dozens more (we didn’t spell it out – a hundred sounds better).
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