| | Year: | 1987 | | Title: | A Brief History of the Printers' Word, Wayzgoose | | Author(s): | | | Printer: | Ed Fisher, Jr | | Printer2/Artist: | | | Press Name: | New Laboratory Press, Carnegie Mellon University | | Location: | Pittsburgh, PA | | Edition: | [na] | | Colophon: | Wayzgoose has nothing to do with eating goose, a little with working by candlelight at Bartholomew-tide, and a lot with printers' annual picnics in the countryside. In 1683 Moxon spelled it waygoose, but by 1875 Bailey insisted on wayzgoose - believing he had restored a lost z. Ed Fisher, Jr - New Laboratory Press, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA | | ISBN - Signature: | | | ISBN (Anthology): | |
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