type-setting

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Let me now briefly sketch the history of type-setting machinery.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

A new impetus to the making of books and printing was given by Woolwich's new system of electrotyping, and Charles Young's new device of a type-setting machine, first employed on the "Family Herald."

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

Still type-setting was no bright field for a person of his temperament.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

Printers tell us that practice expels stiffness from the fingers and makes type-setting an automatic process.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight

A class in type-setting vies with the young carpenters in excellence of workmanship and devotion to business.

From The Children of the Poor by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)