Pressroom of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp

This is the real thing rather than a reconstruction: the pressroom of the Officina Plantiniana, the firm Christophe Plantin founded in 1555 and his descendants, the Moretus family, ran until 1876. Its row of wooden hand presses stands where the pressmen worked them, with type cases, drying lines…

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