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143x200, 535x750, 780x1094 | Front Cover, Benson Stock ImagesStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922) This catalogue was issued in a green cover with gold foil-stamped lettering to impress possible customers. STOCK DESIGNS Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages Benson Printing Co. [...] Keywords: book covers, colour, green, gold, lettering, printing Places shown: none Added: 2020-11-16 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1226x595, 1635x793, 2180x1058, 412x200, 5450x2644, 919x446 | The “lay” of a pair of type cases (upper case).Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891) 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, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-13 + S K L |
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1230x559, 1640x745, 2187x993, 441x200, 5467x2484, 922x419 | The “lay” of a pair of type cases (lower case).Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891) 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, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-13 + S K L |
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| 1177x968, 1569x1291, 1961x1614, 243x200, 882x726 | Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing StickPentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891) “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, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-09-17 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1028x1575, 130x200, 434x665, 578x886, 771x1181 | 8.—Title Page from De Studio Literarum (1536)Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol II.) (1881) Title page from “De Studio Literarum...” published in 1536 in Paris by Jodocus Badius and printed by Michael Vascosanus, illustrated by Oronce Finé (or Oronce Fine, or Orontius Finæus in Latin). The c [...] Keywords: title pages, typography, people, borders, printing, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-07-25 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster AbbeyPentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891) 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, greyscale Places shown: Westminster; London; England Added: 2006-01-21 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 200x200, 716x716, 955x954 | Copper-plate, or Rolling-Press.Hand-book of The Useful Arts (1852) “The rolling-press, which is employed in nearly every species of copper-plate printing, is divided into two parts, the body and the carriage. The body consists of two wooden checks, placed perpendicu [...] Keywords: typography, printing, machinery, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-10-10 + S K L |
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1039x1167, 178x200, 584x656, 779x875 | Lord Stanhope’s Printing PressHand-book of The Useful Arts (1852) “Very little improvement in the construction of this instrument took place from the first introduction of the art into Europe till the late Earl Stanhope applied the powers of his mind to the subject, [...] Keywords: typography, printing, machinery, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-10-10 + S K L |
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1148x1537, 149x200, 1530x2049, 560x750 | Title page, Sayings of AlvedDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878) This image is the title page of a book by John Lonicerus listing things that Augustin Alveld said or wrote about Martin Luther. Got that? Good! The woodcut border round the title was made by Lucas Cra [...] Keywords: title pages, woodcuts, page images, typography, borders, animals, people, drunkenness, printing presses, printing, birds, martin luther, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-10-20 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 124x200, 464x750, 869x1404 | Printing press, detail from borderDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878) This picture shows two young men working an early hand-operated printing-press. The nearer man is pulling the bar that turns the pole with a screw-thread which in turn presses down on the platen and [...] Keywords: printing, printing presses, history of printing, people, men, education, printers devils, boys, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-10-21 + S K L |
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1090x765, 1453x1020, 285x200, 817x574 | 1134.—Ancient Printing-officeHone’s Everyday Book (1826) “An exact old writer says of printers at this season of the year [August 25th], that “It is customary for all journeymen to make every year, new paper windows about Bartholomew-tide, at which time the [...] Keywords: printing, people, typography, beer, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-01-09 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1037x915, 1382x1220, 1600x1200, 1843x1626, 267x200, 500x441, 777x686 | PsalterThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878) Part of a page from Fust & Schoiffer’s second Psalter. A.D. 1459. Johann Fust of Mainz was one of the earliest German printers; Peter Schoiffer, or Peter Schoffer, was his son-in-law. They set up a p [...] Keywords: music, printing, history of printing, typography, christmas, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds Places shown: none Added: 2008-06-16 + S K L |
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