Typographia: an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing: With Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office: with a Description of Stereotype and Lithography. Illustrated by Engravings, Biographical Notices, and Portraits |
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... means of preserving buildings from fire . This object he endeavoured to accomplish by practising the simple and well - known expedient , that combustion can never take place where the air is excluded . To illustrate this principle , and ...
... means of preserving buildings from fire . This object he endeavoured to accomplish by practising the simple and well - known expedient , that combustion can never take place where the air is excluded . To illustrate this principle , and ...
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... means of introducing to the public a novelty in the xylographic art , as connected with the typographic ; namely , the delinea- tion of subjects in wood - engraving , in a style hitherto unattempted . The manner in which the specimens ...
... means of introducing to the public a novelty in the xylographic art , as connected with the typographic ; namely , the delinea- tion of subjects in wood - engraving , in a style hitherto unattempted . The manner in which the specimens ...
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... means whatever of transmitting knowledge except by oral tradition , we have neither history nor relics to inform us . But that period which immediately followed the deluge , and which some chronologers have termed the Second Age of the ...
... means whatever of transmitting knowledge except by oral tradition , we have neither history nor relics to inform us . But that period which immediately followed the deluge , and which some chronologers have termed the Second Age of the ...
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... means of diffusing and perpetuating all the treasures of the understanding , until I shall have accompanied persevering genius through its progressive stages to a degree of perfection beyond which , in the art of registering ideas and ...
... means of diffusing and perpetuating all the treasures of the understanding , until I shall have accompanied persevering genius through its progressive stages to a degree of perfection beyond which , in the art of registering ideas and ...
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... means than by his sigil , could not , it is presumed , have ranked very high among the public cha- racters of his time . . We may suppose him to have been a func- tionary of some Roman office ; or , perhaps , no other than a private ...
... means than by his sigil , could not , it is presumed , have ranked very high among the public cha- racters of his time . . We may suppose him to have been a func- tionary of some Roman office ; or , perhaps , no other than a private ...
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apparatus appears Art of Printing Bible Biblia Pauperum body bookseller Bowyer Brevier called Caslon cast Caxton colour common Company compositor copy cylinder edition England English engraving equal expense folio forme foundry fount frame frisket George Eyre give gypsum hand impression improvement inches invention iron Italic John John Cawood labour letter letter-founders letters patents lever lines London Lord machine manner means Mentz metal mode mould necessary Nonpareil observed octavo paper patent perfect person Peter Schoeffer Pica piece platten present press-work pressman printer printing-office produced proof proper pull purpose quadrats quarto quire quoins rendered Richard Grafton rollers screw sheet side Small Pica space specimens Stanhope Stationers stereotype stone successors sufficient surface thickness Thomas tion turned tympan typographical wardens whole William Caslon wood words workman Wynkyn de Worde
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