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  • adjective Printed by a letterpress.

Etymologies

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letterpress +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • May I ask, you mentioned Moon Valley labels are letterpressed, what exactly is "letterpressed"???

    Moon Valley Contest this week! Anne-Marie 2007

  • And each copy is an original letterpressed handmade edition - thereby preserving the originality of both the fingerprints and printing method itself.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Single colour lithograph on red book cloth, with white letterpressed accents.

    October « 2009 « Sam Weber 2009

  • If it gets you misty-eyed you can buy the letterpressed and handbound version (printed by Peter Koch, who is a legend in his own right) of this essay here If you haven't read The Elements of Typographic Style you should probably do that too.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • If it gets you misty-eyed you can buy the letterpressed and handbound version (printed by Peter Koch, who is a legend in his own right) of this essay here If you haven't read The Elements of Typographic Style you should probably do that too.

    Today's Extracurricular Reading 2009

  • Single colour lithograph on red book cloth, with white letterpressed accents.

    Lord of The Flies « Sam Weber 2009

  • If you run your fingers over a letterpressed item, the words and design will be sunk into the page.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Anne-Marie 2007

  • So, I always keep a few letterpressed cards around for that kind of stuff.

    Letterpress = Sublime Anne-Marie 2007

  • Frequent readers of this site know that I'm a sucker for anything letterpressed (previous posts include this one and this one).

    Letterpress = Sublime Anne-Marie 2007

  • I purchased a set of these beautiful letterpressed cards.

    I shouldn't have ... Anne-Marie 2007

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