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  2. Large-print - Wikipedia

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    Among the first large print book publishers, the Clear Type Publishing Company published a collection of books in 36 point type, c. 1910. [8] The Ohio-based company specialized in large print, publishing books in 36pt and 24pt. [9] In 1914 Robert Irwin produced a series of textbooks in 36 point, for low-vision children in Cleveland, Ohio schools.

  3. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    Textbook. Textbooks written in Pashto distributed to Afghan school children. A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions.

  4. The New England Primer - Wikipedia

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    The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s . In the 17th century, the schoolbooks in use had been Bibles brought over from England.

  5. Wikipedia:Children's, adult new reader, and large-print ...

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    The publication schedule of these books is also frequently tied to school districts' adoption deadlines -- for a new school year, a summer school program, etc. In practice, this means the editorial process is often rushed to make that deadline, in particularly the copy editing and fact-checking stage (which usually comes last in the process).

  6. Book size - Wikipedia

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    Traditional book sizes/formats used in English-speaking countries. Based on the 19-by-24-inch or 482.5-by-609.5-millimetre printing paper size, which equals two folio leaves, four quarto leaves, eight octavo leaves, etc. For comparison, common American letter size is shown in green. Books made by printing two pages of text on each side of a ...

  7. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing. Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing ...

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