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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: Typographia and cherubs setting type]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/typographia-360x200.jpg "[picture: Typographia and cherubs setting type]")
Typographia stands with her robe and chain(??), holding a book out to a cherub with a press; another cherub sets type. [$]
![[picture: Title page from Lewis' Life of William Caxton]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-Lewis-LifeOfCaxton-titlepage-q75-118x200.jpg "[picture: Title page from Lewis' Life of William Caxton]")
Title page from Lewis’ Life of William Caxton
The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; the First Printer in England. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/038-Bas-Relief-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey]")
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 barefoot, probably a [...] [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 (lower case).]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/052-The-Lay-of-a-pair-of-type-cases-b-q75-441x200.jpg "[picture: The ``lay'' of a pair of type cases (lower case).]")
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. [more...] [$]
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