https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/02/the-language-of-printing-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:26:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/02/the-language-of-printing-i/#comment-1517149 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:26:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196545#comment-1517149 Lovely stuff! You might like to know that the 1875 second edition is available as a print-on-demand paperback from Cambridge University Press: bit.ly/44REWky

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/02/the-language-of-printing-i/#comment-1517112 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:52:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196545#comment-1517112 You might want to throw in Titivillus who, according to Wikipedia, “…was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes.”

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/02/the-language-of-printing-i/#comment-1517095 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 07:54:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196545#comment-1517095 Lovely to read these printing terms, some of which are familiar to me. My partner and I (but mainly him) print small booklets for fun. I suppose you could say I am his printer’s devil, and we love a good wayzgoose 🙂

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