The sister arts, or A concise and interesting view of the nature and history of paper-making, printing and bookbinding [by J. Baxter? 4 copies.].Sussex Press, Lewes, 1809 - 104 sidor |
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The Sister Arts: Or, A Concise & Interesting View of the Nature & History of ... Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1809 |
The sister arts, or A concise and interesting view of the nature and history ... John Baxter Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1809 |
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Sida 65 - The Original and Growth of Printing, collected out of History and the Records of this kingdome ; wherein is also demonstrated, that Printing appertaineth to the Prerogative Royal, and is a Flower of the Crown of England.
Sida 94 - ... each sheet. The leaves thus folded and laid over each other in the order of the signatures, are beaten on a stone with a heavy hammer, to make them solid and smooth, and then they are pressed. Thus prepared, they are sewed in a sewing-press, upon packthreads or cords, which are called bands, at a proper distance from each other ; which is done by drawing a thread through the middle of each sheet, and giving a turn round each band...
Sida 34 - This man deserves to be restored to the honour of being the first inventor of printing, of which he has been unjustly deprived by others, who have enjoyed the praises due to him alone.
Sida 81 - ... of the same metal, called a long and short cross, mortised at each end, so as to be taken out occasionally. By the different situations of these crosses, the chase is fitted for different volumes ; for quartos and octavos one traverses the middle lengthwise, the other...
Sida 34 - ... deprived by others, who have enjoyed the praises due to him alone. As he was walking in the wood contiguous to the city, which was the general custom of the richer citizens and men of leisure, in the afternoon and on holidays, he began to cut letters on the bark of the beech...
Sida 38 - Petri Hispani Tractatibus Logicis, with the same letters which Laurens had used. These were the first products of his press. These are the principal circumstances that I have collected from creditable persons, far advanced in years, which they have transmitted like a flaming torch from hand to hand; I have also met with others who have confirmed the same...
Sida 20 - The vat being furnished with a sufficient quantity of stuff and of water, two instruments are employed to mix them ; the one of which is a simple pole, and the other a pole armed with a piece of board, rounded and full of holes.
Sida 83 - ... with a wooden mallet and a piece of hard wood. In this state, the work is called a form ; and as there are two forms required for every sheet, when both sides are to be printed, it is necessary that the distances between the pages in each form should be placed with such exactness, that the impression of the pages in one form shall fall exactly on the back of the pages of the other ; this is called the register. As mistakes will occur, a sheet, which is called a proof, is printed oft...
Sida 80 - The compositor then fills and empties his composing stick as before, till a complete page is formed, when he ties it up with a cord or pack thread, and setting it by, proceeds to the next, till the number of pages contained in a sheet is completed : which done, he carries them to the imposing stone, there to be ranged in order, and fastened together in a frame called a chase , and this is termed imposing. The chase is a rectangular iron frame, of different dimensions according to the size of the...