18th century illustration of press printing -ink transferring from the surface of the type to the paper. Published in A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia

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18th century illustration of ink transferring from the surface of the type to the paper. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Size: 5546px × 3904px
Location: United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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