Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick details |
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| Image title: | Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick | |
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| Source: | Blades, William: “Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges” (1891) | |
| Place shown: | none | |
| Keywords: | printing, tools, typography, diagrams, hands, greyscale | |
| Status: | public domain in the USA, out of copyright in Canada, hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes and no usage credit required | |
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“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 letters. Reading and keeping in his mind a few words of his manuscript, he picked up the types letter by letter and placed them side by side until first words, and then sentences, were composed.” (p. 52) |
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| Dimensions: | 83 x 67mm (3.3 x 2.6 inches) | |
| Filename: | 053a2-Fifteenth-Century-Wooden-Composing-Stick-q75-500x411.jpg | |
| Blog link: | http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/pages/053a2-Fifteenth-Century-Wooden-Composing-Stick//053a2-Fifteenth-Century-Wooden-Composing-Stick-q75-500x411.jpg | |
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