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 strani |
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Stran 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.
Stran 36 - ... not be offensive to the eyes; and none at first were printed in a more perfect manner. As this new species of traffic attracted numerous customers, thus did the profits arising from it increase his love for the art and his diligence in the exercise of it.
Stran 82 - To dress the chase, ^or arrange and fix the pages therein, the compositor makes use of a. set of furniture, consisting of slips of wood of different dimensions, and about half an inch high, that they .may be lower than the letters.
Stran 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.
Stran 59 - VELLUM, and bound iu blue morocco. 401.' guidance of virtue and taste, will always contribute largely to the •uuiforls and elegances of life. " Aided by thee, O ART SUBLIME ! our race Spurns the opposing bonds of time and space, With fame's swift flight to hold an equal course, And taste the stream from reason's purest source ; Vice, and her hydra-sous, thy powers can bind, And cast in virtue's mould the plastic mind.
Stran 74 - He lived to .be old ; probably he was more than fourscore at the time of his death. In the year 1471, he complained of ." the infirmities of age creeping. upon him, and enfeebling his.
Stran 65 - Canterbury, moved the then king (Henry VI.) to use all possible means for procuring a printing mould (for so it was then called) to be brought into this kingdom.
Stran 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...
Stran 8 - As they were separated from the reed, they were extended on a table, and laid across each other at right angles. In this state they were moistened by the water of the Nile, and while wet were put under a press, and afterwards exposed to the rays of the sun.
Stran 35 - This succeeding so well, he attempted greater things; and, being a man of genius and reflection, he invented, with the aid of his brother or son-inlaw, Thomas Pietrison, a thicker and more adhesive ink, as the common ink was too thin and made blotted marks.