Glenn Fleishman is wrapping up another successful Kickstarter project:

The book Six Centuries of Type & Printing briskly tells the story of the evolution of type and printing, starting with early documented efforts and surviving artifacts from China and Korea, and introducing Gutenberg and his innovations. It then takes you through each generation of increasing sophistication in metal and relief printing until the abrupt 20th century shift into flat offset printing, which was made possible through photographic and digital improvements, and phototypesetting and digital composition.

I’ve been fascinated by the history and process of printing since I was a teenager, inspired to learn the traditional methods by the then-new world of desktop publishing. I often printed and bound my own works, and I spent the first five or six years of my career in magazine and book publishing. A hardcover book about type and printing—bound in cloth, with a foil-stamped and debossed cover—was an insta-back: exactly the kind of Kickstarter I want to support, and it was a mere $32 for the print and ebook bundle. It didn’t hurt that it’s from Fleishman—I backed his lovely How Comics Are Made last year and The Magazine: The Book (Year One) in 2016)—and I’ve been reading his work for literally decades.

As I write this, this project is successfully (over-) funded with about 24 hours to go.

(Via Daring Fireball.)