Scotland's Gutenberg: William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype Printing 1725-49
Wed 11/19 • 4PM - 5:30PM PST
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
Twentieth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade,
Lecture by William Zachs, Director of the Blackie House Library and Museum. In this lecture, William Zachs outlines the origins of stereotype printing (print production from metal plates rather than moveable type), then turns his focus to the “non-moveable type” productions of Edinburgh goldsmith William Ged (c. 1683–1749). Taking a forensic look at Ged’s few known works, Zachs hypothesizes the existence of a group of previously unknown stereotyped books, thus offering a revised history of alternative methods of book production in Britain in the first half of the 18th century.