The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours (1905)
Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely), b. 1883 · Boston, Lee and Shepard · leaf 167
be heldin the left hand, as shown in Fig. 152, while the right hand picks up thetype one by one anddrops them into thestick, where the leftthumb shoves theminto place. It will Fig. 152. —How to Hold the Composing-stick, j^^ g^^^ |^ looking at the illustration that the type are set upside down… … A BOYS PRINTING-SHOP 135 Fig. 153. — A Composing-rule. of a piece of brass rule. In typesetting, the rule is firstplaced in the stick, and the type then placed against it When a line has been set and there still remains aspace too small for another word, it is necessary to eitherplace wider spaces…
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