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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) |
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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) |
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