A dictionary of the art of printing

Breves and macrons are accurately represented (ă ĕ ā ē etc). Many other unusual characters are displayed using Unicode combining diacriticals. The display software on the device...

“The stress is laid on long and short syllables indiscriminately. In order to distinguish the one from the other, some writers of dictionaries have placed the grave on the forme...

“The Workmen take him by force, and lay him on his Belly athwart the _Correcting-stone_, and held him there while another of the Work-men with a Paper-board, gave him 10_l._ _an...

9. The letters of the Arabic alphabet have not always been arranged in the order in which they are at the present day. The Arabs themselves have preserved the remembrance of a m...

or little star *, directs the reader to some note in the margin, or at the bottom of the page. Two or three asterisks generally denote the omission of some letters in a word, or...

This accident frequently occurs:--in the course of working at press a letter or letters will draw out in beating, and occasionally be left on the form without being perceived; t...

The late Mr. Thomas Bensley, who was printer to the University of Oxford, told me, about the year 1805, that they had a sealed copy there, as a standard to read from; if this be...

Galilean |Galilæan |Galilean |Galilean |Mark xiv. 70. gazingstock |gazingstock |gazing-stock |gazingstock |Nah. iii. 6. Gedeon } |Gedeon |Gedeon |Gedeon |Heb. xi. 32. Gideon } |...

sabbath day |sabbath day |sabbath-day |sabbath-day |Exod. xx. 8. saltpits |saltpits |salt-pits |saltpits |Zeph. ii. 9. sapphire stone |sapphire stone |sapphire-stone |sapphire-s...

+-------+-------+-------+----------+---------+ | | | | Earl | Letter | | | Old |Smith’s|Stanhope’s|Founder’s| | |Number.|Number.| Number. | present | | | | | | Number. | +------...

s. 2. “And be it further enacted, That if in any such Case as aforesaid Judgment shall be arrested, or if, after Judgment shall have been entered, the same shall be reversed upo...

_Sw. Fl. Gar. Ic. In._--Sweet (R.). British Flower Garden. 1823 to the present time, 3 vols. of the old series; and a part of a volume of the new series, 1830.

_Hastate_, having the form of a halbert-head; that is, with a lance-shaped centre crossed at the base by two lobes of a similar form standing at right angles with the centre.

_Stipe_, the stalk that bears the head of a mushroom; also the stalk of the leaf of a fern; also the stalk of any thing, except of a leaf or a flower.

s. 7. “And be it enacted, That no Baker or other Person who shall make Bread for Sale in _Ireland_, nor any Journeyman or other Servant of any such Baker or other Person, shall,...

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---++---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G || A | B | C | D | E | F | G | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---++---+---+---+---+---+---+---+...

+-----------------------------------------+ | NUMBER OF THOUSANDS IN A SHEET. | | The figures at the top designate the | | number of lines the page is long. | +-----------------...

+-----------------------------------------------+ | NUMBER OF THOUSANDS IN JOBS. | | The figures at the top designate the number | | of ens in width. | +-------+-------+-------+...

Counting or Casting off Copy (for both phrases are indifferently used) is to examine and find how much either of printed copy will come in into any intended number of sheets of...

Upon the whole, when I take into account the decreased risk from fire, owing to the fine for candles--the prevention of waste of materials, by throwing them about--the appeal fo...

There are different ways of working in companionships: one is, for each to work on his own account, to write his own bill, charging what he has done, and correct his own matter....

To prevent mistakes, confused bills, and disputes in companionships, and with the employer, it is essentially necessary that a compositor should keep an account of the work that...

When the corrector reads the proof, or the compositor mends the faults he marked in the proof, they are both said to correct; the corrector the proof, the compositor the form.--...

The pressman sometimes has a week boy to take sheets, as they are printed, off the tympan: these boys do in a printing house commonly black and daub themselves; whence the workm...

William Norton, a printer of great note, lived in St. Paul’s Churchyard, who died in 1593. He gave six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, yearly to his company, to be len...

There is also a material difference in the manner of obtaining impressions: those from an engraving on wood are produced by coating the surface of the lines with ink by beating...

Although the Etrurians seem to have arrived at the highest point of civilization, and even of luxury, at an early period, whilst Rome had as yet no existence, and to have been d...

The balls should be in good condition, otherwise the pressman may exert his skill in vain, with a great loss of time and waste of paper, without the intended effect. They are ma...

_See if it follows_, is a term used as well by the corrector, as by the compositor and pressman. It is used by the corrector and compositor when they examine how the beginning m...

After a form is laid up, it is frequently left in the sink for a short time to allow the water to drain from it; if another compositor wants to lay up a form before this be remo...

+-----------------------+----------------+-----------+----------+ | Name. | Formula. | Oxygen | Hydrogen | | | | = 100. | = 1. | +-----------------------+----------------+------...

Aluminum Al Mercury (Hydrargyrum) Hg Antimony (Stibium) Sb Molybdenum Mo Arsenic As Nickel Ni Barium Ba Nitrogen N Bismuth Bi Osmium Os Boron B Oxygen O Bromine Br Palladium Pd...

What is usually called furniture is in lengths of a yard each, and commences with narrow, which is equal to a narrow quotation; broad, which is equal to a broad quotation; doubl...

A may be supposed to represent a glass vessel of convenient form. B a gas glass stopped at the lower end P, by a piece of plaster of Paris, to the depth of three quarters of an...

+---------------+----------------+-------------+ | Character. | Signification. | Name. | +---------------+----------------+-------------+ | ~A a~ | A a | Au | | ~B b~ | B b | Be...

Quires. Sheets. 1 24 2 48 3 72 4 96 5 120 6 144 7 168 8 192 9 216 10 240 11 264 12 288 13 312 14 336 15 360 16 384 17 408 18 432 19 456 20 480 21 504

_Long Primer._--Caslon and Livermore. V. and J. Figgins. Thorowgood and Besley, late Fry’s; one fount cut from the MS. of the late Professor Porson. University of Oxford. Wilson...

+---------+--------+-------+---------------------------------+-----+ | Names. |Figure. |Simil- | Sound or power of the letters. | Num-| | | Finals.| itude.| | ber.| +---------+-...

In the above plans the Hebrew Cases nearly resemble those of the English now in use. The alphabets have been classified and arranged so as to facilitate the composing of it; tha...

“Upon the top of the ram, the press-plate or table _h_, strengthened with projecting ridges, rests, which is commonly called the follower, because it follows the ram closely in...

In my opinion it is preferable to have each part of the furniture in one piece, where it is practicable; as, for instance, the gutters, the backs, and the heads; which prevents...

+----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ | | | | |[B2]| | | | | |[C2]| | | | | |[D2]| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |...

+----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ +----+----+ | 11 | 14 | | 15 | 10 | | 35 | 38 | | 39 | 34 | | 59 | 62 | | 63 | 58 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |...

By imposing a sheet of twelves in this manner, the first signature of the offcut being in the inner form, it rises more conveniently for the bookbinder when folding; as it saves...

Stower imposes this form in three slips, and makes one of them an inset; and the slip with the first signature, has the heads of the pages to the raw edge of the paper: I have a...

s. 2. “And be it enacted, That every Person who after the passing of this Act shall print any Paper or Book whatsoever, which shall be meant to be published or dispersed, and wh...

“A more simple and cheap apparatus for this purpose was immediately got up by Mr. Foster, the inventor of the composition balls. It is a stand having its two legs and feet of ca...

When one, two, three, or more copies of a sheet of a work, or a job, are printed on the paper that the whole is intended to be worked on, it is said to be _Pulled on its own Pap...

_Y. B._; _Yr. B._--Year Books. The Year Books are quoted by the Year of each King’s Reign, the folio, page and number of the Plea in the page, except par. 5, Liber Assisarum, fo...

s. 4. “Provided always, That nothing in this Act shall extend to prohibit any Person from printing, copying, and publishing any Lecture or Lectures which have or shall have been...

To space a line or lines in a composing stick so that they shall not be tight; also to place wood cuts, or any other matter, in a page, so that they shall not be fast when locke...

“IX. The foregoing description shews the nature of my invention; which may be applied to a great variety of uses, and constructed or put together in a great variety of forms. It...

“The difficulties attendant on any improvement in the arts may be considered either as moral or physical. Under the moral, I would class every thing that relates to the prejudic...

It may, perhaps, be allowable to make a few observations on this statement, more particularly as Mr. Nicholson is seldom spoken of in connexion with printing machines, and when...

“This is one of the good old customs, and the best that I know of; because the pressman is sure to have the points centrical; he perceives whether all the furniture be put in ri...

DUODECIMO.--After folding a sheet of paper exactly into 12mo., proceed as in octavo for the gutter, but let the fold lie rather less over the edge of the adjoining page than a P...

In speaking of type metal, I shall first give Moxon’s description of making it, which is curious; and then some interesting observations on the same subject by M. Sage, from the...

* Babenberge and Bambergæ Bamberg, Bohemia. Bada Baden, Switzerland. Badiza Bath, Somersetshire. Bajocæ, Bajocassina Baieux, Normandy. Baiona Bayonne, Gascony. * Bambergæ and Ba...

* Ratisbonæ Ratisbon, Bavaria. † Redones, _or_ Condate Rennes, France. * Reenen Reinen, Venetian territory. * Regii Reggio, Italy. † Regiomons. _See_ Mons Regius. † Regium Lepid...

“The News department appears to have been in full employment at this period. By a strong competition for public favour (which commenced, as already observed, prior to the termin...

“‘From an impartial view of the comparative statements and the proposed advance, it will be seen that we have kept perfectly within the limits prescribed by justice. We have pur...

“Nothing appears worthy of notice after the above date till the month of May in the present year, and while your interests impose upon your Committee the necessity of laying bef...

s. 6. “And be it enacted, That no Person shall print or publish, or shall cause to be printed or published, any Newspaper before there shall be delivered to the Commissioners of...

s. 13. “And be it enacted, That the Printer or Publisher of every Newspaper printed or published in the City of _London_, _Edinburgh_, or _Dublin_, or within Twenty Miles of any...

s. 23. “And be it enacted, That upon the Execution of any Warrant granted under this Act, authorizing any Search to be made in any House, Room, Shop, Warehouse, Outhouse, Buildi...

“And the whole of an Act passed in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of the said King _George_ the Third, [c. 72.] intituled _An Act to enable the Commissioners of His Majesty...

+------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+ | | 1837. | 1838. | 1839. | +------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+ | | _£ s....

s. 58. “And whereas Communications may from Time to Time be opened with Foreign Post Offices, which may render an Alteration in the Rates of Postage expedient; be it enacted, Th...

Two bolts that pass through the head: they have square return heads, which clasp the under side of the nut of the spindle to keep it firm in its place.

s. 3. That no Cover or Blank Leaf, or any other Leaf upon which any Advertisement or other Notice shall be printed, shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be deemed or taken to be...

+-------------------------+---------------+ | FIRST TABLE. | Inches | | +-------+-------+ | Imperial Writing | 22 | 30¼ | | Super Royal Do. | 19¼ | 27½ | | Royal Do. | 19¼ | 24...

+------------------------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | | Long 24. | Squ. 24. | 32mo. | 36mo. | | +-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |Long.|...

s. 17. “And whereas it is expedient to make Provision for Paper being tied up and charged with Duty, and sent out in single Sheets on the Rollers on which the same may be rolled...

s. 49. “And be it enacted, That no such Allowance shall be granted or paid on any Book in the Latin, Greek, or Oriental or Northern Languages, unless such Book shall be wholly p...

The name of a type, one size larger than Great Primer, and one smaller than Double Pica. Moxon does not enumerate this size in his list. It is equal to two Long Primers. _See_ T...

+--------+-------------+------------------+ | ۱‎ | yek | one. | | ۲‎ | du | two. | | ۳‎ | seh | three. | | ۴‎ | chehar | four. | | ۵‎ | penge | five. | | ۶‎ | shesh | six. | | ۷...

The printer’s name and residence affixed to printed books or other articles, by the enactment of the act of parliament of 39 Geo. 3. c. 79., was technically so called.

This explanation applies to letterpress printing, to which this work is confined, in contradistinction to copperplate printing. The details of the practice are diffused through...

Imprimis, That every printer, and other person, or persons whatsoever, which at this tyme present hath erected, or set up, or hereafter shall erect, set up, keepe, mainteyn, or...

s. 6. “And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person or persons shall within this Kingdom, or elsewhere, Imprint or cause to be Imprinted, nor shall Impor...

s. 24. “Provided also, That neither this Act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend to restrain the keeping and using of a Printing-press in the City of _York_, so as al...

s. 18. “And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Two or more Justices of the Peace, in all Cases in which they are authorized to hear and determine any Offence...

“Sometimes when the word with which the last preposition agrees, is single, it is better to omit the comma before it: as, ‘Many states were in alliance _with_, and under the pro...

Many readers betray a want of remembrance of the sensitiveness of authors, by endeavouring, with the best intentions, to improve their language, and thus making unauthorized alt...

∿ and • These two characters occur also in the last-named work, the meaning of which is by no means clear. They appear to be imperfect imitations of private marks made by the wr...

[2] The atrocious massacre above referred to, is related in the following impious and inhuman terms:--“On that same day of the coronation, about the solemn hour in which the Son...

There are various references used for notes, according to the fancy of the author, or the master printer; where they are not numerous in a page, the common references are genera...

“Being thus prepared, put the glue into a little water for a few hours to soak. Pour off all the liquid, and put the glue into the inner vessel, the boiler having in it as much...

Running the form under the platen, by turning the rounce.--_M._ This corroborates my opinion that the coffin, plank, &c., and not the long ribs, constitute the carriage, and tha...

इ _i_, and ई _ī_, are two characters to note the sound which the Italians give to the vowel _i_. The former is to be pronounced short, like _ee_ in _meet_ (encounter), and the l...

A vowel near, or at the end of a word, is often absorbed by the preceding or succeeding consonant, especially if that consonant be a semi-vowel; but either that or the nearest v...

+-------+-------+------+ | 1000 | 750 | | |and up-| and | | “FOLIOS. |wards. | 500. | 250. | ON MEDIUM OR DEMY. +-------+-------+------+ | _d._ | _d._ | _d._ | Not exceeding 52...

“The usual rule for the type for notes is two sixes less than the text; i. e. English text has Small Pica notes; Small Pica text, Bourgeois notes; Long Primer text, Brevier note...

This plan was very popular on the Continent, and almost universally adopted; and so much importance was attached to it that Messrs. Didot and Sons took out an English patent for...

It is customary to commence with B on the first sheet of the body of the work, and to go regularly through the alphabet, with the exception of the letters J, V, and W, which are...

+-----------------+-----------------+----------------- 1104 49 A 4413 | 1127 50 A 4505 | 1150 51 A 4597 | 1173 52 A 4689 1105 B 4417 | 1128 B 4509 | 1151 B 4601 | 1174 B 4693 11...

SLICE is also the name of an iron implement used in the ink block to transfer the ink from the tub or other receptacle, and to scrape it together in a mass, clear of the balls w...

_Figs._ 1. and 2. are elevations, _fig._ 3. a plan, and _fig._ 4. a section. A A is a massive frame of cast iron, formed in one piece: this is the body of the press, in the uppe...

+--------+----------+-----------------------+------+------+ | Order | Names |Figures of the Letters.| | | | of the | of the +-----+-----+-----+-----+ PL | NV | |Letters.| Letter...

s. 91. “And be it enacted, That no Advertisement inserted by Direction of the Commissioners or any Assistant Commissioner, or by any Tithe Owner or Land Owner, in the _London Ga...

This want of uniformity in the depth of body of the respective sizes is much to be regretted, as it causes serious inconvenience in a printing office, and might be avoided by th...

Of the twenty-one Welsh consonants twelve are immutable, namely, _ch_, _dd_, _f_, _ff_, _ng_, _k_, _l_, _n_, _ph_, _r_, _s_, _th_; the remaining nine, _b_, _c_, _d_, _g_, _ll_,...