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American Encyclopedia Of Printing (1981)

Author: Ringwalt, J. Luther Ed
Collection: millionbooks; millionbooks

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Reviewer: Type Historian - - November 23, 2009
Subject: American Encyclopaedia of Printing
Do yourself a favor and BUY a copy of this rare gem? Duh, I don't think so...

This book was originally published in 1871--NOT in 1981. Furthermore, the title is spelled "Encyclop*a*edia," not "Encyclopedia." I downloaded a PDF-ified copy of it from Google Books.

I only wish that the page scans were search-able--the info in this book is valuable to historians of 19th-century type regardless of file-format or OS limitations.

Google's online copies of scanned eBooks are search-able--once downloaded, they revert to a collection of raster page images instead of font-based text.

If this book interests you, I recommend using Google Books' searchable online PDF as a road-map to a downloaded copy.

--The Type Heritage Project

Reviewer: qq1122qq - - June 24, 2006
Subject: Agreed
Yes, it looks like this has been taken from a black-and-white scan of a microfilm of the work, which explains the blurring, distortion, and large DjVu file size.

Reviewer: cromy - - June 24, 2006
Subject: Don't waste your time
Another useless DJVU huge file which blocks XP with disk swapping.
The scans / photos of pages are very bad, with slanted, misaligned and deformed pages.
DJVU compression only makes this worse, with many pages unreadable.
In conclusion, make yourself a favour and buy a printed copy.

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