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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: From the Biblia Pauperum. Block Book. 15th Century.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/008-biblia-pauperum-block-book-q60-364x200.jpg "[picture: From the Biblia Pauperum. Block Book. 15th Century.]")
From the Biblia Pauperum. Block Book. 15th Century.
This image is taken from a fifteenth century “Speculum humanæ salvationis”, probably from the first Latin edition of around 1470. The panels represent the fall of Lucifer and the creation of Eve from Adam, respectively. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-164x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing
The outside of the book. [$]
![[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 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 [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Old Iron Composing Stick]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/053a1-Old-Iron-Composing-Stick-28x200.jpg "[picture: Old Iron Composing Stick]"){kind=small}
Not mentioned in the text, but see the fifteenth century composing stick for details. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing
Two stern figures hold up an ornate title page. [more...] [$]
Pictures from The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges by William Blades (1824 – 1890), Typographer, Chicago, 1891; I have added the captions.
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