Typographia: Or, The Printer's Instructor: a Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Typographic Art, with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office, Hints to Authors, Publishers, &c |
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alphabet alterations angle appearance attention body cast centre character Cicero comma composing composition compositor copy correct corrector dash denote distributing double letters engraving equal face Faust folios foolscap folio founders fount of letter frequently frisket full-point furniture Guttemberg hair space Half Sheet heap imposed impression Inner Form invention Italic Job Book kerned laid lays left hand length lines Long Primer manner margin mark matter Mentilius Mentz metal method mode necessary Nonpareil observe Outer Form Overseer page paper paper particular PETER SCHOEFFER Pica pressman printer printing proof proper pulled punctuation purpose quadrats Quarto quire quoins reader reglet require right hand rollers Roman rules semicolon Sheet of Octavo Sheet of Twelves side signature sitor slip sheets small capitals Small Pica sometimes sorts stand sufficient thickness thumb tympan TYPOGRAPHIA waste sheet words
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Page 201 - ALPHA BETA GAMMA DELTA EPSILON ZETA ETA THETA IOTA KAPPA LAMBDA MU NU XI OMICRON PI RHO SIGMA TAU UPSILON PHI CHI PSI OMEGA...
Page 17 - PETER SCHOEFFER, of Gernsheim, perceiving his master Faust's design, and being himself ardently desirous to improve the art, found out (by the good providence of God) the method of cutting (incidendi) the characters in a matrix, that the letters might easily be singly cast, instead of 'being cut.
Page 32 - I469r70, alphabetical tables of the first words of each chapter were introduced, as a guide to the binder. Catch-words (now generally abolished) were first used at Venice, by Vindeline de Spire. The...
Page 180 - Ital. must be written. (See No. 3.) When letters or words are set double, or are required to be taken out, a line is drawn through the superfluous word or letter, and the mark No. 4 placed opposite in the margin. Where the punctuation requires to be altered, the correct point, marked in the margin, should be encircled.
Page 180 - No. 7 describes the manner in which the hyphen and ellipsis line are marked. When a letter has been omitted, a caret is put at the place of omission, and the letter marked as No. 8. Where letters that should be joined are separated, or where a line is too widely spaced, the mark No. 9 must be placed under them, and the correction denoted by the marks in the margin.
Page 29 - That James Franklin, the Printer and Publisher thereof, be strictly forbidden by this Court, to Print or Publish the New England Courant, or any Pamphlet or Paper of the like Nature, except it be first supervised by the Secretary of this Province...
Page 175 - ... taking care to use an equal force in our strokes, and to drive the quoins far enough up the shoulders of the side and foot-sticks, that the letter may neither belly out one way nor hang in the other ; and as to the lower quoins, they ought to be driven to a station where they may do the office of keeping the letter straight and even.
Page 28 - Cambridge" — nor should any thing be printed there but what the government permitted through the agency of those persons who were empowered for the purpose. Offenders against this regulation were to forfeit their presses to the country, and to be disfranchised of the privilege of printing thereafter.
Page 179 - THOUGH a variety of opinions exist as to the individual by whom the art of printing was first discovered , yet all authorities concur in admitting PETER SCHOEFFER to be the person who invented cast metal types, having learned the art of cutting the letters from the Guttembergs: he is also supposed to have been the first who engraved on copper-plates.