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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... Rollers - Figures of the Rollers , Ink- ... ... ... Tables , & c . The Printing Press of the original construction Twenty - six figures of the various parts of the same ... ... 625 to 635 ... 416 ... ... 452 , & c . ... ... 417 648 637 ...
... Rollers - Figures of the Rollers , Ink- ... ... ... Tables , & c . The Printing Press of the original construction Twenty - six figures of the various parts of the same ... ... 625 to 635 ... 416 ... ... 452 , & c . ... ... 417 648 637 ...
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... Rollers : Printing in Red , or other Colours with Black : Mixing and grinding Colours with Varnish : Rules and Remedies for Pressmen . CHAPTER IV - p . 609 . FINE PRINTING . Of Fine Printing : Baskerville : Ritchie : Bulmer : Bensley ...
... Rollers : Printing in Red , or other Colours with Black : Mixing and grinding Colours with Varnish : Rules and Remedies for Pressmen . CHAPTER IV - p . 609 . FINE PRINTING . Of Fine Printing : Baskerville : Ritchie : Bulmer : Bensley ...
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... roller , could take off even a slight impression , and even such a power must have crushed the sulphur to atoms . " The earliest print from a wood block of which we have any certain date , is now in the collection of earl Spencer . The ...
... roller , could take off even a slight impression , and even such a power must have crushed the sulphur to atoms . " The earliest print from a wood block of which we have any certain date , is now in the collection of earl Spencer . The ...
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... rollers , so as to represent a table , which , by the revolution of the rollers , is in constant motion ; at one end the vat , containing the pulp , is situated , having a lip , or low side , at which the pulp runs over in a continued ...
... rollers , so as to represent a table , which , by the revolution of the rollers , is in constant motion ; at one end the vat , containing the pulp , is situated , having a lip , or low side , at which the pulp runs over in a continued ...
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... rollers . The pulp for this machine is much more dilated than for any other mode of making paper , and therefore admits of the fibres which compose it being longer , which has a beneficial effect with regard to the texture of the paper ...
... rollers . The pulp for this machine is much more dilated than for any other mode of making paper , and therefore admits of the fibres which compose it being longer , which has a beneficial effect with regard to the texture of the paper ...
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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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