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- 1Nostalgia for the dying craft of hand typesetting●When I was in junior high, one of the shop classes involved typesetting with old-fashioned movable type. More recently I
A writer recalls learning movable type in a junior high shop class and recommends "Twilight of the Velocipede," an account of typesetting races in the final years before Linotype machines displaced hand composition. The piece is drawing attention as a window on a vanished trade, when speed competitions tested compositors and mechanical printing was about to end an era of manual letterpress work.