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Typography Tuesday

As some of our longtime followers probably know, we adore wood type. So, this week we present some wood type samples from Type Specimens of Caliban Press On the occasion of its sixth anniversary, from the recent donation of the estate of our late friend, art professor, painter, collector, letterpress printer, and book artist Dennis Bayuzick. The publication was letterpress printed and hand-bound by special collections librarian and fine press printer Mark McMurray in 1991 at his Caliban Press in Montclair, New Jersey, in an edition of 100 copies signed by the printer.

The first few unidentified specimens on pages 42 to 45 were made by the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, right here in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, which for almost a century was the largest producer of wood type in the world. The company stopped producing wood type in the 1980s, but continued to produce other manufactured goods, and finally left Two Rivers in 2013. Its wood type legacy lives on, however, in Two River's magnificent Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, an essential pilgrimage site for any lover of wood type!

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