The Addresses of Abraham Lincoln; Extracts from the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge.

Training Division of the Kingsport Press.

The Addresses of Abraham Lincoln; Extracts from the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge.

Tennessee:

The Kingsport Press,

1929, 1930.

These miniature books were produced as training exercises by two cohorts of students at the Kingsport Press. Experiments in striking and casting two-point type had been successfully accomplished in the 19th century. The Kingsport students, however, first composed and printed their texts in regular-sized (e.g., 10- or 12-point) type, and then they photographically reduced the appearance of the printed sheets—a process that enabled them to print the resulting miniature text via offset lithography.

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