I recently paid a visit to the Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life, where they have recreated what they thought a small rural printing office would have looked like in the late 19th Century.
I have split the photographs over two pages:
Page One, Page Two.
A Columbian Press
A Peerless hand-fed platen press
I have split the photographs over two pages:
Page One, Page Two.
A small selection of Letterpress Ebay listings appear below. A much bigger selection appears here. Linotype-related Ebay listings are here.