And that's it! Sent off the new training set and hopefully improve the issues I have encountered!
I will also use this model for the 1728 print. It's a different printing press, but overall, the two prints are very much alike, and so is the type they use.

#fraktur #Transkribus #ethicacomplementoria #htr #earlymodern #printhistory

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This phenomenon is highlighted because the model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting!

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
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In the '70s and '80s, if you wanted to set type for yourself, you had to resort to presstype, transfer lettering, Letraset – there were a bunch of names and a bunch of brands, of which Letraset was the highest quality. I think this stuff cost about $8 a sheet back then, when I was making about $2 an hour, so it was a real indulgence, and once I chose a sheet, it got used for any project I needed type for.

#typography #typesetting #printing #printhistory #printingproduction #letraset #presstype

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Improbably, I’m about to hit 11,000 followers on Mastodon—that’s nearly 40% of what I had on Twitter and 4,000% better conversation! I had a week-end 10% off sale of my ebooks and letterpress-printed books and other material when I hit 10,000.

I’m doing a flash 10% sale again for the next 24 hours! Go to glog.glennf.com/the-store and use code MASTELEVEN at checkout!

#letterpress #type #typography #printing #capitalletters #printhistory

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James Joyce wrote as much as a third of Ulysses at the *proof stage*…forcing the [repeated] resetting of the type of nearly every page.

#patrickhastings #JamesJoyce #printhistory #ulysses

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A little print history. John Peters, former RAF pilot, was a designer at Cambridge University Press post war. He designed several fonts inc. Castella for Monotype. He founded The Vine Press in Hilton which handset and printed short-run books on a Cope and Sherwin press. Here's a link to my MA dissertation on his work and life hellolovely.design/johnpeters

#print #cambridge #fonts #graphicdesign #typography #printhistory #bookdesign #illustration

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My day job is at a and I've been looking at a lot of Daumier lately and I'd like everyone to know that in the early- to mid- in France there was a trend where cartoonists would draw a pear to represent the king to flout censorship laws, please enjoy this blog I found explaining the trend: henripeyrefi.ws.gc.cuny.edu/20

#museum #prints #19thcentury #printhistory #histodons #arthistory

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The crude but hilarious and charming woodcuts in this spelling book are by English artist Joseph Crawhall II.

This little gem from 1884 (first edition) is a great example of the chap book revival led by Crawhall and The Leadenhall Press.

I love the silliness and artistic freedom of this.

#rarebook #printhistory #bookhistory #rarebooks #chapbook #woodcuts #childrensbook

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