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![[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-409x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Pictures from The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges by William Blades (1824 – 1890), Typographer, Chicago, 1891; I have added the captions.
Title: Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges
Published by: A.C.M. McCLVRG & Co.
City: Chicago
Date: 1891
Total items: 21
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-detail-vintage-fruitbowl-ornament-q75-320x200.jpg "[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]")
This woodcut design was used as a decorative ornament on the title page of the Life of William Caxton edited by John Lewis. [more...] [$]
![[picture: A Line of Composed Type]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/053b-line-of-composed-type-q75-658x200.jpg "[picture: A Line of Composed Type]")
“When the end of a line was reached, and there was no room for more words and yet some space left, the compositor by placing a little extra space between the words made the line fill out the stick. This was called ‘justifying” the line. Each line was lifted out of the stick and placed on a wooden board; thus line after line was [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title page from Lewis' Life of William Caxton]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-Lewis-LifeOfCaxton-titlepage-q75-118x200.jpg "[picture: Title page from Lewis' Life of William Caxton]")
Title page from Lewis’ Life of William Caxton
The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; the First Printer in England. [more...] [$]
![[picture: A naughty cherub makes handprints]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/cherubs-with-handprints-761x200.jpg "[picture: A naughty cherub makes handprints]")
A naughty cherub makes handprints on everything, including his naked companion [$]
![[picture: Irregular vintage border from 1712]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/110-irregular-vinatage-border-q85-119x200.jpg "[picture: Irregular vintage border from 1712]")
Irregular vintage border from 1712
This border of straight lines in red and back is taken from James Watson’s title page from three hundred years ago; I have kept the horizontal line so that you can erase it or duplicate it and move it as desired, and I coloured one of the two nested [...] [more...] [$]
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