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Letterpress  n.  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. "Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates."





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"Letterpress" Quotes from Famous Books



... wish you had contributed to the letterpress, too. For the wonder to me is, not that you cricketers write books (for all the world wants to read them), but that you do ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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... political subjects was overcome, that, long after, he began to illustrate Punch's pages regularly. This he did, with the brilliant results that made his name famous, down to his untimely death. The letterpress description of 'Foreign Affairs' was written by Mr. Percival Leigh, who—also after an interval—steadily contributed. Mr. Douglas Jerrold began to wield Punch's baton in No. 9. His 'Peel Regularly Called in' was the first of those withering political satires, signed ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
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