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Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype — The Public Domain Review

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowds in the thousands, of…

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