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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: Scriptorium Monk at Work]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/scriptorium-monk-at-work-213x200.jpg "[picture: Scriptorium Monk at Work]")
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: A naughty cherub makes handprints]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/cherubs-with-handprints-761x200.jpg "[picture: A naughty cherub makes handprints]")
A naughty cherub makes handprints on everything, including his naked companion [$]
![[picture: The ``lay'' of a pair of type cases (upper case).]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/052-The-Lay-of-a-pair-of-type-cases-a-q75-412x200.jpg "[picture: The ``lay'' of a pair of type cases (upper case).]")
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 open; a type tray generally does not have a lid, so you had to learn where the letters went. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Two tiny cherubs on a book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/cherubs-on-book-176x200.jpg "[picture: Two tiny cherubs on a book]")
Two tiny cherubs on the spine of an a book. They face away from us. [$]
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