The Pentateuch of printing, with a chapter on Judges (1891)
Blades, William, 1824-1890, Reed, Talbot Baines · Chicago : A. C. McClurg and company · leaf 90
colour. Leviticus. 55 There were nearly always two workmen to one press. One beatthe form, that is, he dabbed two big, soft balls covered with ink overall the type; the other placed the white paper on the tympan, andran the whole, by means of a winch, beneath the platen, and thenmade a strong pull… … INTERIOR OF A 17111 CENTURY PRINTING office. (From Mallinkrot.) to a stock, had to undergo peculiar treatment requiring bothexperience and sagacity. Extremes of heat and cold, of dampness anddryness, called out all the resources of the pressman in order to keepthe skins of his balls in the proper…
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