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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: 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...] [$]
![[picture: Anatomically correct cherubs carrying books]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/cherubs-carrying-books-738x200.jpg "[picture: Anatomically correct cherubs carrying books]")
Anatomically correct cherubs carrying books through the undergrowth. [$]
![[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 [$]
![[picture: Irregular vintage border from 1712]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/110-irregular-vinatage-border-q85-119x200.jpg "[picture: Irregular vintage border from 1712]")
Irregular vintage border from 1712
This border of straight lines in red and back is taken from James Watson’s title page from three hundred years ago; I have kept the horizontal line so that you can erase it or duplicate it and move it as desired, and I coloured one of the two nested [...] [more...] [$]
![[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. [$]
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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