The Printers' Vocabulary: A Collection of Some 2500 Technical Terms, Phrases, Abbreviations, and Other Expressions Mostly Relating to Letterpress Printing, Many of which Have Been in Use Since the Time of Caxton |
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The Printers' Vocabulary; A Collection of Some 2500 Technical Terms, Phrases ... Charles Thomas Jacobi No preview available - 2015 |
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Common terms and phrases
abbreviation bevel blocks boards boiler bookbinder brass rule called cards cases.-Cases cast character of type chases colour composing stick composition compositor copy cylinder depth of body distinct distribution edges electrotype fastened folded folios forme frame frisket galley hand-made hand-press holding impression inches ink-balls invented iron jobbing purposes laid larger than Two-line leads letter letterpress printing machine.-A small making-ready mark of punctuation mark.-A matter medical sign metal Nonpareil paper.-A paper.-Paper Pica in depth placed platen machine post.-A press or machine press.-A press.-The printed sheet printer's alphabet printers printing machine printing office proof pull quadrats quarto quires quoins ream receptacle reglet reverse rollers rotary screw shaft short term side signature slang expression slang term smaller than Two-line sometimes spaces special lay steam stereo term applied thickness thin treadle tympan type metal type one size usually vellum wood woodcuts wooden word workman writing paper
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Page 124 - ... type, black letter, heavy type, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals &c. (letters) 561; diamond, pearl, nonpareil, minion, brevier, bourgeois, long primer, small pica, pica, english, great primer. folio &c. (book) 593; copy, impression, pull, proof, galley -, author's -, page- proof, revise. printer, compositor, reader; printer's devil. V. print; compose; put -, go- to press; pass -, see- through the press; flowing -, cursive -, legible -, copper- publish &c.
Page 10 - Bleed. — When a book or pamphlet has been cut down too much, so as to touch the printed matter. Blind blocked (or tooled). — Lettering on book covers- not inked or gilt, simply impressed. Block. — A general term used, embracing woodcuts, electros, or zincos. Body of the work. — The text or subject-matter of a volume is thus described to distinguish it from the preliminary, appendix, or notes. Bolts. — The folds at the heads and fore-edge are thus described by the binder in receiving instructions...
Page 7 - Beano. — A slang abbreviation in England for " beanfeast," which is, however, usually termed "goose" or wayzgoose by compositors. Beard. — The beard of a letter is that part between the face and the square, solid body ; the inclined portion above the shank and between that and the face. Bearer. — A strip of reglet or other furniture used to lessen the impression upon a blank page by bearing some itself. Types interspersed here and...
Page 64 - ... quires. — Books in sheets not bound up. In slip. — Matter set up and pulled on galleys before making-up into pages. In the press. — A work in course of printing is thus announced to the trade or public. Indent. — To set a line some little distance back, as in the case of a fresh paragraph. India paper. — A fine paper used by engravers for proofs, which, though generally imported from China, is called "India.
Page 63 - In the Hole.— A compositor behindhand with his copy and keeping his companions waiting is thus described in England ; in America it is generally said he is in the gap. In the Metal. — Anything in type ; the reverse of anything in print ; for instance, to read a revise in the metal without taking a proof. In the Opening. — When compositors wait for a companion to finish his copy in order that the makingup...
Page 55 - Guarded. — Books are said to be guarded when the plates are mounted or sewn on guards instead of being stitched or pasted in the ordinary way.
Page 8 - I)erived from the French bienvenue, welcome. Benzine. — A very clean, pungent - smelling fluid, used in printing-offices to remove ink from type or rollers. It is one of the numerous products of petroleum. Insurance companies do not generally allow more than a quart at a time in an office...
References to this book
Diccionario de bibliotecología: términos relativos a la bibliogía ... Domingo Buonocore No preview available - 1963 |