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How Books Became Cheap: An Illustrated Timeline Of Publishing Technology

WORDS Posted: July 31, 2020 11:03 am

From woodblock printing (3rd century) to movable type (11th century — sorry, Gutenberg) to stereotyping (in the original sense; ca. 1700) to paperbacks (ca. 1845) to hot-metal typesetting (ca. 1884). – Lapham’s Quarterly

WORDS Published: 07.30.20

Read the story in Lapham's Quarterly Published: 07.30.20

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