Type founders making printing type in a workshop
Type founders making printing type in a workshop. The caster pours hot metal into letter moulds and then throws the letters to a polisher who sits at a polishing stone. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810
Picture No
12483022
Media ID
45724741
Size
3831px x 5897px
(10.6MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Florilegius Collection
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