Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
This certifies that four hundred and fifty copies only, all on hand-made Holland paper and printed from types, of this edition of Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises,” in two volumes, were completed in August, 1896, and that the types have been distributed.
This certifies that four hundred and fifty copies only, all on hand-made Holland paper and printed from types, of this edition of Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises,” in two volumes,...
2. Part 2_Which is but three years later than that of_ Tullies Offices _at_ Mentz, _in_ 1465. _and was perhaps one of the first Books Printed on Paper_; (_that of_ Tully _being on Vellom...
3. Part 3Both the _Upper_ and the _Lower-Case_ have a thick Partition about three quarters of an Inch broad, Duff-tail’d into the middle of the upper and under Rail of the _Frame_. This...
4. Part 4THere are two sorts of _Presses_ in use, _viz._ the old fashion and the new fashion; The old fashion is generally used here in _England_; but I think for no other reason, than b...
5. Part 5At the hinder end of the Frame of the _Coffin_ are fastned either with strong Nails, Rivets, or rather Screws, two Iron _Half-Joynts_, as at _b b_, which having an Iron Pin of a...
6. Part 6The _Press-Stone_ should be Marble, though sometimes Master _Printers_ make shift with Purbeck, either because they can buy them cheaper, or else because they can neither distin...
7. Part 7The _Flat-Gage_ is described in _Plate_ 10. at A. It is made of a flat piece of Box, or other Hard Wood. Its Length is three Inches and an half, its Breadth two Inches and an ha...
8. Part 8The first three Sizes fit exactly in Heighth to all the Letters of the same Body; but the last three Sizes fit not exactly in Thickness to the Letters of the same Body; for that...
9. Part 9If the Letter be great he is thus to Sculp out, he then, with a Graver, Cuts along the Insides of the drawn or marked Stroaks, round about all the Hollow he is Cutting-in. And h...
10. Part 10The _Bottom-Plate_ is made of _Iron_, about two Inches and three quarters long, and about the same breadth; its thickness about a _Brevier_: It is planisht exactly flat and stra...
11. Part 11That the _Matrice_, and all its parts may be the better understood, as I shall have Occasion to Name them, I have given you a _Draft_ of the _Matrice_ in Plate, 18 at E. and sha...
12. Part 12The _Furnance_ I have described in Plate 20. It is built of Brick upright, with four square sides and a Stone on the top, in which Stone is a wide round hole for the _Pan_ to st...
13. Part 13He also provides a _Kerning-Knife_: This is a pretty strong piece of a broken Knife, about three Inches long, which he fits into a Wooden-Handle: But first he breaks off the Bac...
14. Part 14Then taking the _Block_ with _Letter_ in it in his left hand, he places the _Knot-end_ from him, and takes the _Handle_ of the _Dressing-stick_ in his right-Hand, and lays the _...