A Type History Talk through Printing and Type Artifacts

Glenn Fleishman delivers a highly illustrated talk that covers a range of 18th to mid-20th century printing, type, and typesetting technologies centered on artifacts: elements used in the making and casting of type and in printing that help explain the whole. The talk also addresses his Tiny Type Museum and Time Capsule project to make 100 teaching collections of artifacts, both historic and modern. There are two breakout history lessons in the talk as well: one about the use of paper molds that made the transition from printing slowly on flat-bed presses to fast rotary ones; the other about “bogus copy,” a union trade practice that survived the Supreme Court and didn’t end until the 1970s. The talk was presented at the Grabhorn Institute in San Francisco on June 5, 2019. Two errata! • Rob Roy Kelly is the full name of an author I cite • George Liesch (or George Brylski Liesch) is George’s correct name