Casting off type

Just found this.

It reminds me of the typefounders books I used to use to cast off type before sending it to a typesetters (and crossing my fingers that the typesetting would come back as I expected from my markup). Wow! is seems ridiculous now, that typographers used to do this… I’m sure hard core book typographers still know how to do it. 

The things we used to do before Desktop Computers came along!!!

I’m coming over all nostalgic. (Although I don’t want to go back there).