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Gabriel on the power of print
Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress
Oak Knoll Press and The British Library
“The above title, my second work on the iron handpress should be in bookstores in June 2004. Stephen O. Saxe (my editor) and I have worked on this project for more than eight years. In mid-April, Bradley Hutchinson, who set the book at Digital Letterpress, and I hope to have a website up with more information about this work, along with a few pictures. In the meantime, for more information about this nearly 1200-page, two volume book, contact oakknoll@oakknoll.com.
Meanwhile go immediately to Gabriel’s expanded website.
Minsky on the power of print
A google search on “They that can give up essential liberty” just gave me 43,900 results. Two years ago it gave me 20,000. The language did not sound to me at all like Franklin (one of my favorite old timers). Franklin never would have said “They that can.”
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Catch up on Richard’s achievements at
minsky.com