Myth Busting Metal Type | Bite Sized Book History

Описание: Who was the first to print with metal type? Spoiler: it ain't Gutenberg! Learn about the history of movable metal type, and the painstaking process of printing a book in this episode of Bite Sized Book History!

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Further reading:
Burke, Peter. “Three Print Revolutions.” Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change, edited by Hildegard Diemberger et al., Brill, LEIDEN; BOSTON, 2016, pp. 13–20. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h246.6.
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Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Garfield, Simon. Just My Type. London: Profile Books, 2011.
Werner, Sarah. Studying Early Printed Books. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
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