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The lost art of paste-up: Bryony Dalefield of the London Review of Books demonstrates the meticulous manual process from the days when it involved literal cutting and pasting with cow gum. I remember my father doing the same when I was small.
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The oldest extant book printed with movable type is the Jikji, a collection of Buddhist teachings printed in Korea in 1377 CE. The practice of movable type in China and Korea probably predates it by a couple of centuries, but no examples survive.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
