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 72
LEAD AND REGLET CABINET. The composing slid-, figs. 24-28, is the tool used for type-setting. It is made in various metals, but generally of ironor gun-metal for bookworlc. For newspaper work shortmahogany sticks, fig. 27, are sometimes employed; they arelined with metal (usually brass), and the… … Fig. 24. stick with slotted screw. which can be adjusted to any measure within the length ofthe stick. These slides are fastened usually by means of a