1455
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Johann Gutenberg invents the Western world's first working movable type. Invents printing press; bibles may now be mass-produced instead of individually handwritten. |
1916
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so there's this book "LETTERING" © by Thomas Wood Stevens [New York & Chicago: The Prang Company, 2nd ed.] Has type specimens in it. World War I era quill marking inside front cover reads "Katherine G. Nair, Mechanics Institute Bevier Building Rochester N.Y." |
| 1991 |
somebody apparently found it at some used book sale for $3, don't know who |
| 1993 |
throughout highschool I photocopy some out (like Fig. 58 below) clip apart and reassemble to spell words, stencils, etc. |
| 2004 |
i've now reduced that face to 50% scale, transferred to plate, cut it all out and reversed the photos |
| 2005 |
New text by Leslie Cabarga features repro of aforementioned 1916 book inside covers |
