New book collects the weirdest forgotten stories of printing history

Preview of double-page spread in “Flong Time, No See,” reproducing a wood cut from “The Graphic” (1877)

In the 1800s, newspaper typesetters had a union-negotiated right to get paid for composing metal type that would be melted down unused. The practice was called “bogus” — and the Supreme Court upheld it. Glenn Fleishman’s Flong Time, No See: Forgotten S…