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The Gutenberg Press with its moveable type.

Illustration of a printing press and a composing stick from the first edition (1768–71) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, plate CXLVII, figure 1.

Inside Lovedale Press, the printing department that the Lovedale Missionary Institute opened in 1861.

Pages for the Letter "F" in Fascist Alphabet Book

Someone making a sheet of papyrus.

A map of Africa in 1914, with a map of colonies belonging to numerous European empires and the colonial languages of each.

Hieroglyphs on the Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt.

Chinua Achebe, c. 1960, with two editions of his first novel, Things Fall Apart.

An image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.