Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : $b The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printingMoxon, Joseph
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Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : $b The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing
Moxon, Joseph
Printing -- Early works to 1800
Then he lays by his _Dressing-Hook_, and keeping his _Dressing-stick_
of _Letter_ still in his left hand, he takes a second _Dressing-stick_,
with its _Handle_ in his right-Hand, and lays the _Side-Ledge_ of it
against the hither-side of the _Quadrat_ at the hither end of the
_Dressing-stick_, and the _bottom-Ledge_ of the second _Stick_ hanging
a little over the _Feet_ of the _Letter_, that they may be comprehended
within the _bottom-Ledge_ of the second _Dressing-stick_; and so
removing his left hand towards the middle of both _Dressing-sticks_,
and clasping them close together, he turns both Hands outwards towards
the left, till the _Letter_ in the first _Dressing-stick_ lie upon the
second _Dressing-stick_, and then the _Face_ of the _Letter_ will lie
outwards toward the right-Hand, and the _Nicks_ upwards. Then he uses
the _Dressing-Hook_ and _Dressing-Knife_ to _Scrape_ this side the
_Line_ of _Letter_, as he did before to the other side of the _Line_ of
_Letter_: So shall both sides be _Scraped_ and _Drest_.
Having thus _Scraped_ both the sides, He takes the _Handle_ of
the _Dressing-stick_ into his left hand, as before, and takes the
_Male-block_ into his right-Hand, and placing the _Tongue_ of the
_Block_ against the _Face_ of the _Letter_ in the _Dressing-stick_,
he also places the _Knot_ of the _Block_ against the farther side of
the _Quadrat_ at the farther end of the _Stick_, and so placing his
right-Hand underneath the middle of the _Dressing-stick_ and _Block_,
he turns his Hand outwards towards the left, as before, and transfers
the _Letter_ in the _Dressing-stick_ to the _Male-Block_: Yet he so
holds and manages the _Block_ that the _Shanck_ of the _Letter_ may
rest at once upon the side of the _Block_ the _Knot_ is placed in, and
the _Face_ of the _Letter_ upon the _Tongue_.
When his _Stick_ of _Letters_ is thus transfer’d to the _Male-Block_,
He claps the middle of the _Male-Block_ into his left hand, tilting the
_Feet_ of the _Letter_ a little upwards, that the _Face_ may rest upon
the _Tongue_, and then takes about the middle of the _Female-Block_ in
his right-Hand, and lays it so upon the _Male-Block_, that the _Tongue_
of the _Male-Block_ may fall into the _Tongue_ of the _Female-Block_,
and that the _Knot_ at the hither end of the _Female-Block_ may stand
against the hither-side of the _Quadrat_ at the hither end of the
_Line_ of _Letters_: So that when the _Knot_ of the _Male-Block_
is lightly drawn towards the _Knot_ of the _Female-Block_, or the
_Knot_ of the _Female-Block_ lightly thrust towards the _Knot_ of the
_Male-Block_, both _Knots_ shall squeeze the _Letter_ close between
them.
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