Typographia, Or the Printers' Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century: a Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday Characters: Together with an Elucidation of Every Subject Connected with the Art, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824 - 663 pages |
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... head . ib Gothic Languages . Making ready a form 519 Runic 447 Rubbing out ink 523 Gothic 451 Of beating . 524 Anglo - Saxon 453 Of pulling 525 Modern Saxon alphabet . English 456 Covering the tympans 529 463 Of wetting paper ib 530 ...
... head . ib Gothic Languages . Making ready a form 519 Runic 447 Rubbing out ink 523 Gothic 451 Of beating . 524 Anglo - Saxon 453 Of pulling 525 Modern Saxon alphabet . English 456 Covering the tympans 529 463 Of wetting paper ib 530 ...
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... head , being persuaded of the impossibility of bringing a number of persons into the same way of thinking . As the Ger- mans are justly entitled to the merit for the invention of typography and metal types , so are the Dutch famed for ...
... head , being persuaded of the impossibility of bringing a number of persons into the same way of thinking . As the Ger- mans are justly entitled to the merit for the invention of typography and metal types , so are the Dutch famed for ...
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... head , or the foot , and is , as Printers call it , bottle - arsed ;, which is a fault that can- not be mended but by rubbing the whole fount over again . 3. Whether the thin lower - case letters , especially the dots over the i and j ...
... head , or the foot , and is , as Printers call it , bottle - arsed ;, which is a fault that can- not be mended but by rubbing the whole fount over again . 3. Whether the thin lower - case letters , especially the dots over the i and j ...
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... head or subject - matter of a chapter from the chapter itself . To plead the necessity of Italic to distinguish proper names of persons and places , would be altogether needless ; and argue , that the present age is less capable of ...
... head or subject - matter of a chapter from the chapter itself . To plead the necessity of Italic to distinguish proper names of persons and places , would be altogether needless ; and argue , that the present age is less capable of ...
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... heads of Statutes , & c . According to the predictions of all our predeces- sors , it was reasonable to conclude that it would , ere this , have been banished from every office , and con- signed to rest in Oblivion's tomb , with its ...
... heads of Statutes , & c . According to the predictions of all our predeces- sors , it was reasonable to conclude that it would , ere this , have been banished from every office , and con- signed to rest in Oblivion's tomb , with its ...
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alphabet alteration ancient appear balls body bolts bottom Brevier called cast characters cheeks Chinese composed compositor considered copy dialect diphthongs Domesday double Egypt Egyptian English engraving fastened feet figures Fleet street Folio founders fount four frisket Greek hair spaces Half Sheet head heap Hebrew Hieroglyphics hole invented iron Italic laid language lays left hand length letter lines Lond Long Primer manuscript mark matter Nonpareil observed Octavo Oghams Ogum original outer overseer paid paper Pelasgian Persian person Pica piece Piston placed Plattin present pressmen printed printer proof pull quadrats Quarto quire quoins racter reader ribs right hand Roman Rosetta Stone rounce Sanskrita Saxon screws shew shilling side signature signifies sixpence Small Pica sorts space spindle square stand stone Teth thick tion tongue tympan upper vellum vowels words writing written
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Page 433 - The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, And every thing sown by the brooks, Shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
Page 222 - Ital. must be written. (See No. 3.) When letters or words are set double, or are required to be taken out, a line is drawn through the superfluous word or letter, and the mark No. 4 placed opposite in the margin. Where the punctuation requires to be altered, the correct point, marked in the margin, should be encircled.
Page 333 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates : and Josiah went out against him. 21. But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war : for God commanded me to make haste : forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Page 578 - Kingdom for Sale, and published periodically, or in Parts or Numbers, at Intervals not exceeding Twenty six Days between the Publication of any Two such Pamphlets or Papers, Parts or Numbers...
Page 576 - Act, every person having any printing press, or types for printing, shall cause a notice thereof, signed in the presence of and attested by one witness, to be delivered to the clerk of the peace acting for the county, stewartry, riding, division, city, borough, town, or place, where the same shall be intended to be used...
Page 477 - Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: and join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Page 221 - God) the method of cutting (incidendi) the characters in a matrix, that the letters might easily be singly cast, instead of 'being cut. He privately cut matrices for the whole alphabet: and when he showed his master the letters cast from these matrices, Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed.
Page 201 - By observing a proper method in cutting up new furniture, the same will be serviceable for other works, as well as the one for which it is intended, even though the size of the page may differ, provided it agrees with the margin of the paper. The gutters should be cut two or three lines longer than the page ; the headbolts wider ; the back furniture may run down to the rim of the...
Page 54 - ... equal antiquity with printing, though, not long after its invention, the necessity of introducing stops or pauses in sentences, for the guidance of the reader, brought forward the colon and full-point, the two first invented. In process of time, the comma was added to the infant punctuation, which then had no other figure than a perpendicular line, proportionable to the body of the letter; these three points were the only ones used till the close of the fifteenth century, when Aldus Manutius...
Page 43 - C also became a plain C by the same means ; the single rectangle which denoted fifty, was, without any alteration, a capital L; the double acute angle was an X; the single acute angle a V consonant; and a plain single stroke, the letter I. And thus these seven letters, M, D, C, L, X, V, I, became numerals. As a further proof of this assertion, let...