Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Dating D. W. Paterson’s Melbourne Monotype Specimen
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'At the end of the nineteenth century metal foundry type used for printing books, newspapers and posters was overtaken by automation to the extent that a keyboard operator could compose pages of type and the machine would set and justify the lines without the need for a compositor to set a text by hand.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Script and Print vol. 42 no. 3 2018 19735118 2018 periodical issue 2018 pg. 174-175
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