[PDF.22in] The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races

The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races

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 | #1119639 in Books |  University of Virginia Press |  2003-04-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.64 x.94 x6.38l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 233 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| So I'm glad I bought it and read it|By Dick Margulis|I have a longstanding interest in the history of typesetting, and this book filled a gap in my knowledge. So I'm glad I bought it and read it. But it does not live up to its billing or its back cover copy. Rumble is compared in that copy with Dava Sobel, among others, but, um, no. The writing is ham-fisted, with a great deal| ||In a lively and colorful manner, Walker Rumble captures the excitement and suspense of typesetting races and the men and women who participated in them. In doing so, he recovers a little-known and fascinating corner of American life. (Michael Winship, Univers

On a December day in 1885, Bill Barnes, a journeyman from the New York World, and Joe McCann, representing the New York Herald, faced off in a match race of Swifts, compositors who set type by hand, individually, letter by letter, with incredible accuracy and speed. McCann got off to a slow start, but at the end of the four-hour race, he joined shopfloor legends Clinton "The Kid" DeJarnatt and the "Velocipede" George Arensberg as a working-class hero. It was not the l...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races   |  Walker Rumble. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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