IF YOU imagine there’s nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set ...

Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 1:181. 2. T. H. Howard-Hill, Compositors B and E in the Shakespeare First ...

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THIS little book was not originally intended for publication. When it was begun the intention was simply to make a guide for compositors and readers at the Clarendon Press. But copies were also given ...