Items matching printing

Lord Stanhope’s Printing Press

“Very little improvement in the construction of this instrument took place from the first introduction of the art into Europe till the late Earl Stanhope applied the powers of his mind to the subject, [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, machinery

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Added: 2006-02-06

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Copper-plate, or Rolling-Press.

“The rolling-press, which is employed in nearly every species of copper-plate printing, is divided into two parts, the body and the carriage. The body consists of two wooden checks, placed perpendicu [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, machinery

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Added: 2006-02-06

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Psalter

Part of a page from Fust & Schoiffer’s second Psalter. A.D. 1459. Johann Fust of Mainz was one of the earliest German printers; Peter Schoiffer, or Peter Schoffer, was his son-in-law. They set up a p [...]

Keywords: music, printing, history of printing, typography, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2008-06-16

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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 letters. Reading and keeping in his mind a fe [...]

Keywords: printing, tools, typography, diagrams, hands

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-17

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The “lay” of a pair of type cases (upper case).

This is the top half of the figure, the upper case. In the actual type tray, individual sorts, or pieces of type, would be stored in the compartment indicated. Note that the actual compartments are o [...]

Keywords: typography, printing

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-13

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The “lay” of a pair of type cases (lower case).

This is the lower half of the figure, and shows (not by coincidence) how the miniscule letters, now called lower case letters, were stored in the type case. Note that quadrat is from the Latin for squ [...]

Keywords: typography, printing

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-13

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Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey

A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoo [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, children, pictures of books, books, people, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-01-21

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Typographia

Typographia stands with her robe and chain(??), holding a book out to a cherub with a press; another cherub sets type.

Keywords: cherubs, nudity, bare feet, books, printing

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-01-21

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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. Th [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, diagrams

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-17

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Old Iron Composing Stick

Not mentioned in the text, but see the fifteenth century composing stick for details.

Keywords: printing, typography, tools

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-17

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Printers’ Ornament

This decorative ornament was used after the text at the end of a chapter. Such printing ornaments used to be fairly common. This one has a has a central area that could be used as a cartouch, that i [...]

Keywords: ornaments, printing

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-09

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1134.—Ancient Printing-office

“An exact old writer says of printers at this season of the year [August 25th], that “It is customary for all journeymen to make every year, new paper windows about Bartholomew-tide, at which time the [...]

Keywords: printing, people, typography, beer

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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