Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books / by Charles Thomas Jacobi.

  • Jacobi, Charles Thomas, 1853-1933.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books / by Charles Thomas Jacobi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. TYPES. Chapter I. Letterpress Printing defined—The Production of Type : the Punch, Matrice, and Moulds for Hand and Machine Casting—Component Parts of Metal—Selection of Founts of Type for Wearing Properties and Good Ap¬ pearance—List of Letters which constitute a Fount— Fractions, Accents, and Signs—Varieties of Old Face, Old Style, and Modern Faces — Italic — Black-letter Founts—Some Jobbing Founts—Distinctive Parts of a Letter—Classification of Letters—The Bodies of Types as to Depth—Sizes of Types—Relation of Types to each other in Body—Spaces and Quadrats—Table of Measure¬ ments of Type Bodies ....... COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION. HAPTER II. Materials, Tools, and Appliances used—Va¬ rieties of Frames and Cases—Different kinds of Com¬ posing Sticks, Setting Rules, and Galleys—Leads—Brass Rules of Plain and Fancy Character—Furniture, Wooden and Metal—Quoins—Patent Locking-up Apparatus— Mallet, Planer, and Shooting Sticks—Chases, Imposing Surfaces, Forme and Letter-Board Racks—Galley Proof Presses—Rule and Lead Cutters—Bodkin, Tweezers, and Shears .......... hapter III, Position and Aspect of a Composing Room, with Plan—Lays of Book and News Cases—Learning the Boxes—Reversed Print—Attitude in Composing—Spacing PAGE 1-23 24-52