A short history of the art of printing in England (1877)
Powell, Arthur, b. 1853 · London : J. M. Powell, "Printers' Register" office · leaf 46
tantly releasingthe impression when the pressman let go the bar. This press of Blaews wasdescribed by Moxon in 1683 as a new-fashioned press, and strongly recommendedby him. It was a long time before it came into general use, so ignorant andprejudiced were the printers of those days ; yet, when its… … THE STANHOPE PRESS. (From Johnson!s Tyfographia.) Up to the year 1800 presses were made almost entirely of wood; an elementwhich rendered them necessarily cumbrous and comparatively weak, so much so,that four pages of octavo was about as large a forme as could be printed at onetime. It was Charles…
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