As every _Stick-full_ is set up, he sets them by upon the _Racks_, ready for the _Dresser_ to _Dress_, as shall be shewed in the next §. [Illustration: _Plate 21._] The _Racks_ are described in _Plate 21._ at A. They are made of Square _Deal Battens_ about seven Inches and an half long, as at _a b a b a b_, and are at the ends _b b b_ let into two upright _Stiles_, standing about sixteen Inches and an half assunder, and the fore-ends of the _Racks_ mounting a little, that when _Sticks_ of _Letters_ is _Set_ by on any two parallel _Racks_, there may be no danger that the _Letters_ in them shall slide off forward; but their _Feet_ rest against the _Bottom-Ledges_ of the _Composing-sticks_. They set by as many of these _Sticks_ with _Letter_ in them, as will stand upon one another between every two _Rails_, and then set another pile of _Sticks_ with _Letter_ in them before the first, till the length of the _Rail_ be also filled with _Sticks_ of _Letter_ before one another. They set all the _Sticks_ of _Letters_ with their ends even to one another with the _Faces_ of the _Letter_ forwards. This _Frame of Racks_ is always placed near the _Dressing-Bench_, that it may stand convenient to the _Letter-Dressers_ Hand. §. 20. ¶. 1. _Of_ Dressing _of_ Letters. There be several Tools and Machines used to the _Dressing_ of _Letters_: And unless I should describe them to you first, you might perhaps in my following discourse not well understand me: Wherefore I shall begin with them: They are as follows. 1. The _Dressing-Sticks_. 2. The _Bench_, _Blocks_ and its Appurtenances. 3. The _Dressing-Hook_. 4. The _Dressing-Knife_. 5. The _Plow_. 6. The _Mallet_. Of each of these in order. ¶. 2. _Of the_ Dressing-Sticks. I need give no other Description of the _Dressing-sticks_, than I did in the last §. and ¶. of the _Composing-Sticks_: Only they are made of hard Wood, and of greater Substance, as well because hard Wood will work smoother than soft Wood, as because greater Substance is less Subject to warp or shake than smaller Substance is. And also because hard Wood is less Subject to be penetrated by the sharpness of the _Bur_ of the _Mettal_ on the _Letters_ than the soft. ¶. 3. _Of the_ Block-Grove, _and its_ Appurtenances. The _Block-Grove_ is described in _Plate 21. a b_. The _Groove_ in which the _Blocks_ are laid, two Inches deep, and seven Inches and an half wide at one end, and seven Inches wide at the other end: One of the _Cheeks_ as _c_ is three Inches and an half broad at one end, and three Inches broad at the other end, and the other _Cheek_ three Inches broad the whole Length: The Length of these _Cheeks_ are two and twenty Inches. [Illustration: _Plate 22._] The _Wedge_ _e f_ is seven and twenty Inches and an half long, two Inches broad at one end, and three Inches and an half broad at the other end; And two Inches deep.