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Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books (1904)

Jacobi, Charles Thomas · London : G. Bell & Sons · leaf 31

An illustration from Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books, 1904, leaf 31 — Fig. 3. hand-mould (opened). This operation of casting, though apparently a simple one,required experience and judgement, so that the mould might … FlG. 4. HAND-MOULD (CLOSED). be well filled, and the letter perfect in body and face whenfinished. To perform this, the mould is filled with the metal TYPE-CASTING o Fig. 5. type heated up to a given degree, and with a peculiar jerk of theleft hand, which held the mould, the metal was sent…

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