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  • I believe the name was chosen because the books have a very old-school feel, like hand-set artisan printing and engraving.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The hand-set type is tiny, but its five columns breathe.

    An ad that gives me goose bumps 2010

  • [B]Thomas Sabo onlineshop[/B] quality 925 strerling silver is graced with the use of hand-set and hand-cut zirconia stone.

    BSNYC "Summer Reese's" Announcement! (and Friday Fun Quiz!) BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • By the time Clemens arrived on the scene, Dan De Quille had begun publishing humorous sketches in the Golden Era and Knickerbocker Magazine, the same New York publication whose columns of type young Sam Clemens had hand-set a decade earlier during his brief sojourn in the East.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • We're barely 65 years into the biggest change in technology since hand-set type on a modified olive-oil press.

    A Look to the Future: Wanna Play? 2008

  • The hand-set type is tiny, but its five columns breathe.

    An ad that gives me goose bumps 2010

  • I believe the name was chosen because the books have a very old-school feel, like hand-set artisan printing and engraving.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The hand-set type is tiny, but its five columns breathe.

    An ad that gives me goose bumps 2010

  • By the time Clemens arrived on the scene, Dan De Quille had begun publishing humorous sketches in the Golden Era and Knickerbocker Magazine, the same New York publication whose columns of type young Sam Clemens had hand-set a decade earlier during his brief sojourn in the East.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • In the U.S., in particular, the entire market has been controlled by mobile carriers, with the hand-set folks being forced to take a back-seat.

    Why all cellphones may soon be Wi-Fi-ready 2007

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