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Author Alastair Johnston

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Alastair Johnston is a scholar, teacher and letterpress printer. He is the author of “Transitional faces,” a forthcoming biography of Richard Austin, cutter of the Bell and Scotch Roman types and his son Richard T. Austin, a wood engraver. He is co-editor of William E. Loy’s “Nineteenth-century American designers & engravers of type,” and most recently has produced “Typographical tourists: tales of the tramp printer,” from his Poltroon Press based in Berkeley, California.

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