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, Nide 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824 - 663 sivua |
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... taken from the frontispiece of Graf- ton's edition of Halle's Chronicle of 1548 ; with the Sovereign de- livering Bishop Coverdale's Bible above alluded to into the hands of Archbishop Cranmer , and Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex to ...
... taken from the frontispiece of Graf- ton's edition of Halle's Chronicle of 1548 ; with the Sovereign de- livering Bishop Coverdale's Bible above alluded to into the hands of Archbishop Cranmer , and Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex to ...
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... taken [ nearly ] the whole range of Fancy , in bringing forward ornamented let- ters of every size and description , together with a new character , which they term Egyptian : this latter is all the rage at present , particularly in ...
... taken [ nearly ] the whole range of Fancy , in bringing forward ornamented let- ters of every size and description , together with a new character , which they term Egyptian : this latter is all the rage at present , particularly in ...
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... taken so great a run as Small Pica ; and very considerable works have been done in that charac- ter , & c . It is a letter , indeed , which was not taken The London type - founders have latterly cut a letter on Two- lines Pica body ...
... taken so great a run as Small Pica ; and very considerable works have been done in that charac- ter , & c . It is a letter , indeed , which was not taken The London type - founders have latterly cut a letter on Two- lines Pica body ...
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... taken place of late years , and for which we are indebted to the ingenious Mr. Bell , who introduced them in his edition of the British Classics . They are now generally adopted , and the founders scarcely ever cast a long f to their ...
... taken place of late years , and for which we are indebted to the ingenious Mr. Bell , who introduced them in his edition of the British Classics . They are now generally adopted , and the founders scarcely ever cast a long f to their ...
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... taken the liberty to suggest . With pleasure we allow our tribute of praise to the late Lord S. for the attention he has paid to the improvement of the art , and we should have no objection to his plan for abolishing the double letters ...
... taken the liberty to suggest . With pleasure we allow our tribute of praise to the late Lord S. for the attention he has paid to the improvement of the art , and we should have no objection to his plan for abolishing the double letters ...
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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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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...