Items matching typography taken from Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

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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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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