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wood type: a standalone construct

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Printing history

large display letters cut from end-grain wood, mass-produced in the nineteenth century for posters and broadsides too big for metal type.

In printing history, wood type refers to large display letters cut from end-grain wood, mass-produced in the nineteenth century for posters and broadsides too big for metal type. This meaning comes from Kelly (1969) in American wood type, 1828-1900.[1]

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display2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs type4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Kelly, R. R. (1969). American wood type, 1828-1900. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780978588175

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