When Will Bradley started working at Cambridge Press, he would often visit the Boston Public Library and peruse the collection of colonial American chapbooks housed there. It is easy to see why a typehound would delight in the typesetting done for these cheaply printed books that were peddled by traveling chapmen. This particular example is actually British. One of the things I find interesting is the mixed posture of the letters in the word ELEANOR.
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