Title
The Best in the World! Stone & Murray’s Circus!
Coverage
[Philadelphia]:
Publisher
[n.p.],
Date
ca. 1869.
Description
Darius Wells (1800–1875) of New York City found the means to mass produce wooden letters in 1827 by using a lateral router. Large metal type was unwieldly, extremely heavy, and difficult to lock into type formes; wood type provided a cheap and durable alternative. Wood type was not generally employed in book printing, as very large types were not needed for printing hand-held volumes. But it was frequently and widely used in display advertising, such as this poster for Stone & Murray’s Circus.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School