Recasting a Craft: St. Louis Typefounders Respond to Industrialization

摘要

In just 119 pages of text, Robert A. Mullen, collections manager at the Mis souri Historical Society, has provided a general introduction to the type-founding craft and a history of nineteenth-century typefoundries in St. Louis. Typefounding has never drawn much attention from historians other than specialists in the book trades. Unfortunately, this book does lit tle to change that, although it at least provides some evidence useful for analyzing this industry in the wider context of industrial change.