Letterpress - Origin of Manual Typesetting

Master thesis "Letterpress - Origin of Manual Typesetting" consists of the theoretical and the practical part. Theoretical part describes the origin and development of book printing and printed Latin script - proces of type casting and typesetting. Then, the life Johannes Gutenberg is briefly described. The information was partially ontains printed graphical compositions created using wooden letters for script printing in combination with two other graphical techniques of printing from height - monotype and linocut. The part of this work became the experimenting with graphical creative means