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"The Compositors Love Song"

Started by Dave Hughes, October 05, 2007, 06:28:02 PM

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Dave Hughes

Andre Credland writes:

Although I'm not a printer my father, grandfather and great grandfather were.

I have a distant memory of something called the compositors love song that my grandfather stuck to the wall in his typesetting room.

it had lines like:
"i can't set straight my whole frame shakes, i keep on making bda imstakes"
and "i find the page has turned to pie"

I would dearly love to get hold of a copy of this in any format if anyone using this site has any ideas, I would be most grateful
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