type-setting

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Thus while he was doing haphazard type-setting, and trying to interest carriage builders in a new wagon brake, he was also beginning to write.

From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Dickinson, Asa Don

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

The first book in Hebrew printed at the Andover Press was Stuart’s Hebrew Grammar, the Professor himself superintending the type-setting.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 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

These were "teaching, needlework, keeping boarders, weaving, type-setting, and folding and stitching in book-bindery."

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady