founder's type

British

noun

printing special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine

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The old method of printing from founder's type, set for the most part by hand, was doing the work; a revolutionary method by which the type was to be made and set by machine, although promising great economies, was a dangerous innovation and one from which publishers naturally shrank.

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