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Didot’s stereotype editions
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How Didot’s mass production of classic works helped shape the future of printing under the Consulate, Empire, and Restoration periods.
How Didot’s mass production of classic works helped shape the future of printing under the Consulate, Empire, and Restoration periods.
In 1795, Firmin Didot developed the process he called stereotype for printing François Callet’s Tables portatives de logarithmes.
At the 1798 Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie, he presented several works produced using this new process. This consists in obtaining an impression of the typographic form, composed of movable characters, by pressing it into plaster or papier-mâché.
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A lead alloy is then poured into this impression or die to produce a stereotype block (Greek for “solid form”) of the entire composition. The stereotype is very robust and can be used for a long time without deteriorating. This limits the use of movable type, and also provides matrices for