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Composing Stick

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Set it to the width of the line (the measure), pick letters from the type case one by one to make words, put little bits of metal between the words for spaces, and soon you’ll have several complete lines, which you then transfer to the chase to be clamped together for printing.

Photograph taken at Coach House Press, in Toronto, with kind permission of Stan Bevington, the proprietor.


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Casio Computer Co., Ltd EX-Z4
Focal Length: 5.8mm
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/2.6
Exposure Time: 0.076923 seconds
Exposure Program: Program AE
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Date: 2004:07:22 16:44:58

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