- This poem by Mary Robinson, published in The Morning Post in 1800, addressed to that newspaper's "Type," really must be the only poem about a typeface (as well as in a typeface) written in the #19thc. (But, gosh, I would be happy to hear of others.) Here are the first 2 stanzas. #BookHistory
- Wonderful. Not quite the same, but here's an elegy for a worn-out font of type, from The Compositor's Chronicle, 1 May 1842. The first two stanzas:Dec 7, 2024 04:37
- Another item celebrating printing in The Compositors' Chronicle is ‘The Typographical Song' (March 1841). The song weaves technical printing terms into a story in which ‘a fair slender female of paragon face’ and ‘nonpareil figure’ makes an ‘impression’ on a ‘tramp’ who seduces and ‘hotpresses’ her
