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• catalog abstract "[This book] has long been one of the most famous works on typography. Published in 1683-84, it was by forty years the first manual of printing in any language, covering absolutely everything that was known about printing and typography at the end of the 17th century. Still regarded as an authority on early techniques in hand-printing by historians of printing, this compendium of practical knowledge is a uniquely informative, fascinating and readable book that will interest all general readers . . . This edition reprints Moxon's text exactly with the original copperplate illustrations. -- Book cover.".
• catalog alternative "Mechanick exercises".
• catalog contributor b11938612.
• catalog contributor b11938613.
• catalog contributor b11938614.
• catalog contributor b11938615.
• catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
• catalog created "1978.".
• catalog date "1978".
• catalog date "1978.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1978.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-444) and index.".
• catalog description "Mechanick exercises (the second volume): or the Doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing. The art of printing. The office of a master-printer -- Advertisements -- The press -- The art of letter-cutting. Of letter-cutters tools -- Letter-cutting -- The art of mold-making, sinking the matrices, casting and dressing of printing-letters. Making the mold -- Justifying the mold -- Sinking the punches into the matrices -- Setting up the furnance -- Casting, breaking, rubbing, kerning and setting up of letters -- Dressing of letters -- Dressing of letters -- Compositers trade. The correcter and his office -- Advertisement to authors -- Advertisement -- Press-mans trade. The press-mans trade -- Ancient customs used in a printing-house -- A dictionary alphabetically explaining the abstruse words and phrases that are used in typography -- Appendixes. Longer notes -- Errors in the original corrected in this reprint -- A census of copies of Mechanick exercises, Volume II -- The preface to the first volume -- Additional technical illustrations -- Moxon's printing and publishing: a list -- Later books on printing and their reliance on Moxon -- Index -- Addenda (1960.".
• catalog description "[This book] has long been one of the most famous works on typography. Published in 1683-84, it was by forty years the first manual of printing in any language, covering absolutely everything that was known about printing and typography at the end of the 17th century. Still regarded as an authority on early techniques in hand-printing by historians of printing, this compendium of practical knowledge is a uniquely informative, fascinating and readable book that will interest all general readers . . . This edition reprints Moxon's text exactly with the original copperplate illustrations. -- Book cover.".
• catalog extent "lviii, 487 p. :".
• catalog identifier "048623617X :".
• catalog issued "1978".
• catalog issued "1978.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Dover Publications,".
• catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
• catalog subject "686.2/24".
• catalog subject "Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.".
• catalog subject "Printing Early works to 1800.".
• catalog subject "Type and type-founding Early works to 1800.".
• catalog subject "Z244.A2 M93 1978".
• catalog tableOfContents "Mechanick exercises (the second volume): or the Doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing. The art of printing. The office of a master-printer -- Advertisements -- The press -- The art of letter-cutting. Of letter-cutters tools -- Letter-cutting -- The art of mold-making, sinking the matrices, casting and dressing of printing-letters. Making the mold -- Justifying the mold -- Sinking the punches into the matrices -- Setting up the furnance -- Casting, breaking, rubbing, kerning and setting up of letters -- Dressing of letters -- Dressing of letters -- Compositers trade. The correcter and his office -- Advertisement to authors -- Advertisement -- Press-mans trade. The press-mans trade -- Ancient customs used in a printing-house -- A dictionary alphabetically explaining the abstruse words and phrases that are used in typography -- Appendixes. Longer notes -- Errors in the original corrected in this reprint -- A census of copies of Mechanick exercises, Volume II -- The preface to the first volume -- Additional technical illustrations -- Moxon's printing and publishing: a list -- Later books on printing and their reliance on Moxon -- Index -- Addenda (1960.".
• catalog title "Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing (1683-4) / by Joseph Moxon ; edited by Herbert Davis & Harry Carter.".
• catalog title "Mechanick exercises".
• catalog type "Early works. fast".
• catalog type "text".