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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: Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/053a2-Fifteenth-Century-Wooden-Composing-Stick-q75-243x200.jpg "[picture: Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick]")
Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick
“Standing in front of the case, the compositor held in his left hand a wooden “composing-stick,” in which a rectangular trench had been cut to receive the [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-164x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing
The outside of the book. [$]
![[picture: Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing
Two stern figures hold up an ornate title page. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-detail-vintage-fruitbowl-ornament-q75-320x200.jpg "[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]")
This woodcut design was used as a decorative ornament on the title page of the Life of William Caxton edited by John Lewis. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Reproduction of title page from Watson's History of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/110-JamesWatson-HistoryOfPrinting-titlepage-q85-119x200.jpg "[picture: Reproduction of title page from Watson's History of Printing]")
Reproduction of title page from Watson’s History of Printing
This reproduction of the title page of The History of the Art of Printing printed by James Watson in 1713 is included in the last chapter (Judges) of the “Pentateuch of Printing.” [more...] [$]
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