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The Grabhorn Institute was formed in 2000 in order to preserve and perpetuate the use of one of the last integrated typefoundry, letterpress printing, and bookbinding facilities and to guide it into the future.
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The Grabhorn Institute was formed in 2000 in order to preserve and perpetuate the use of one of the last integrated typefoundry, letterpress printing, and bookbinding facilities and to guide it into the future.
Arion Press Tour – Letterpress Printing & Hand Bookbinding 2009
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JY&A Fonts is New Zealand's first digital typefoundry and the leading player in the country.
ScreenTalk 2010
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To preserve and perpetuate the use of the last complete working typefoundry and letterpress workshop in the United States, possibly in the world.
futureofthebook.com 2009
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Public demonstration / tours of the letterpress printing shop, bookbindery, and typefoundry are held every Thursday afternoon at 3: 00 p.m. or by prior arrangement.
futureofthebook.com 2009
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The post concluded with a quotation from an account published in 1851 by Ambroise Firmin-Didot of the use that had been made of this technique to make brass matrices for a set of very elaborate and delicate ornamented capitals for the gothique ornée of the Didot typefoundry, for which the punches were cut in steel by a punchcutter called Cornouailles.
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It was later used in Frankfurt am Main, and it is shown (with some altered and additional characters) in a specimen of titling capitals from the typefoundry of Johann Erasmus Luther dated 1665.
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San Francisco is home to a rare survivor from the era of printing from metal: a complete, traditional bookmaking facility that includes the last fully functioning typefoundry in the nation.
futureofthebook.com 2009
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A new and well-equipped typefoundry, shown below, was built at Hackney Wick in 1900.
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Intellecta Design is a Brazilian typefoundry interested in typographical research and revivals of all forms of ancient typefaces and handwriting styles.
News 2009
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