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press, ready to be printed. be to ready press, size. and style same the

one side of a sheet, arranged and secured in a on the bed of the the of bed the on chase a in secured and arranged sheet, a of side one in cast and cut symbols, other and numerals, letters, of set complete A

The arrangement of all fully composed text blocks to be printed on on printed be to blocks text composed fully all of arrangement The FONT) or ( FOUNT

FORME

metal, creating a piece of type. of piece a creating metal,

galley into the . the into galley type molten with cavity resulting the lls fi and mould hand the

composing is full. Complete pages of text are moved from the the from moved are text of pages Complete full. is stick composing into letter c specifi a for a inserts caster type A widths. letter

A large long tray onto which lines of type are transferred when the the when transferred are type of lines which onto tray long large A varying for adjusts that cavity a create mould the of parts two the

A two-part mould used for casting hand-made type. Slid together, together, Slid type. hand-made casting for used mould two-part A GALLEY

HAND MOULD HAND

from the composing stick to a galley, creating a complete block of text. of block complete a creating galley, a to stick composing the from

copper, onto which a letter-shaped cavity has been struck using a punch. a using struck been has cavity letter-shaped a which onto copper, from the case into a line of type. Multiple complete lines are moved moved are lines complete Multiple type. of line a into case the from

A mold for casting a letter, typically a small rectangular block of of block rectangular small a typically letter, a casting for mold A A handheld tray used by a compositor to set individual pieces of type type of pieces individual set to compositor a by used tray handheld A

MATRIX COMPOSING STICK COMPOSING

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mark in the alphabet. the in mark

forms two leaves. leaves. two forms replicate this process for every single letter, character, and punctuation punctuation and character, letter, single every for process this replicate

A single sheet of paper (or other writing support), folded in half half in folded support), writing other (or paper of sheet single A laborious process. To create an entire fount, the punchcutter must must punchcutter the fount, entire an create To process. laborious

LEAVES end. Cutting a punch is the fi rst step in type design and a long and and long a and design type in step rst fi the is punch a Cutting end.

A long steel bar with a single character carved in relief on the long long the on relief in carved character single a with bar steel long A

support. During the hand-press era, printing occurred one sheet at a time. a at sheet one occurred printing era, hand-press the During support. PUNCH

A single piece of unfolded, uncut parchment, paper, or similar writing writing similar or paper, parchment, uncut unfolded, of piece single A

SHEET

arranged to compose lines for a page. a for lines compose to arranged

locked for printing using wooden and quoins. quoins. and furniture wooden using printing for locked copies of individual characters and punctuation marks are created and and created are marks punctuation and characters individual of copies

A rectangular-shaped frame in which the complete forme for a sheet is is sheet a for forme complete the which in frame rectangular-shaped A A technology and system for printing in which multiple identical identical multiple which in printing for system and technology A

CHASE MOVEABLE TYPE MOVEABLE

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Period in which books were printed on hand-operated presses using The shape and size of a book, determined by how many times the moveable metal type set by hand, roughly between the mid 15th original sheet has been folded to form its constituent leaves.

century and the end of the 18th century. FOLIO | folded once to create 2 leaves

QUARTO | folded twice to create 4 leaves

PRINTING PRESS OCTAVO | folded three times to create 8 leaves

A device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a sheet of DUODECIMO | folded four times to create 16 leaves parchment, paper, or similar writing support, thereby transferring the ink. *This booklet is a quarto.

CODEX

A book constructed of a number of sheets of parchment or paper (or similar materials) folded and nested to form gatherings and bound CHAIN LINES along one edge. The common form of a book in the Western world Lightly visible lines in laid paper caused by the vertical wires of the after ca. 350 AD. paper mould displacing fi bers during the paper making process.

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