One of them many incredible places we visited during last week’s whistlestop tour of Holland and Belgium was the extraordinary Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. (Flickr it.) From the world’s two oldest printing presses to the incredible array or original type punches and old books, it’s a mother lode of treasures and treats.
We were guided through the museum in the morning by Guy Hutsebaut, who gave us a great talk about the materials and techniques involved in handcasting metal type.
