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
Outer _Side-sticks_ and _Foot-sticks_ marked C in Plate 2. are of the
same heighth of the _Head-sticks_, _viz._ _Quadrat_ high, and are
by the _Joyner_ cut to the given length, and to the breadth of the
particular _Pages_ that are to be _Imposed_: The _Side-sticks_ are
placed against the outer-side of the _Page_, and the _Foot-sticks_
against the foot or bottom of the _Page_: The outer-sides of these
_Side_ and _Foot-sticks_ are bevil’d or sloped from the further to the
hither end.
_Gutter-sticks_ marked D in Plate 2. are as the former, _Quadrat_ high,
and are used to set between _Pages_ on either side the _Crosses_, as in
_Octavo’s_, _Twelves_, _Sixteens_, and _Forms_ upwards; They are made
of an equal thickness their whole length, like _Head-sticks_; but they
have a Groove, or Gutter laid on the upper-side of them, as well that
the Water may drain away when the _Form_ is Washed or Rinced, as that
they should not _Print_, when through the tenderness of the _Tinpan_,
the _Plattin_ presses it and the _Paper_ lower than ordinary.
_Scabbord_ is that sort of _Scale_ commonly sold by some _Iron-mongers_
in Bundles; And of which, the _Scabbords_ for _Swords_ are made: The
_Compositer_ cuts it _Quadrat_ high, and to his Length.
The _Master-Printer_ is to provide both _Thick_ and _Thin Scabbord_,
that the _Compositer_ may use either when different Bodied _Letter_
happens in a _Page_, to justifie the _Page_ to a true length; And
also that the _Press-man_ may chuse _Thick_ or _Thin_ to make truer
_Register_, as shall be shewed in proper place.
_Quoyns_ are also _Quadrat_ high, and have one of their sides Bevil’d
away to comply with the Bevil of the _Side_ and _Foot-sticks_; they are
of different Lengths, and different Breadths: The great _Quoyns_ about
three Inches square, except the Bevil on one side as aforesaid; and
these sizes deminish downwards to an Inch and an half in length, and
half an Inch in breadth.
Of these _Quoyns_ our _Master-Printer_ provides several hundreds, and
should provide them of at the least ten different Breadths between the
aforesaid sizes, that the _Compositer_ may chuse such as will best fit
the _Chase_ and _Furniture_.
The Office of these _Quoyns_ are to _Lock_ up the _Form_, _viz._ to
wedge it up (by force of a _Mallet_ and _Shooting-stick_) so close
together, both on the sides and between Head and Foot of the _Page_,
that every _Letter_ bearing hard against every next _Letter_, the whole
_Form_ may _Rise_; as shall be shewed hereafter.
Their farther Office is to make _Register_ at the _Press_.
§. 9. ¶. 1. _Of the_ Mallet, Shooting-stick _and_ Dressing-Block,
Composing-sticks, Bodkin, _and_ Chase. _&c._
_Printers Mallets_ have a _Cilindrick_ Head, and a round Handle;
The Head somewhat bigger, and the Handle somewhat longer than those
_Joyners_ commonly use; Yet neither shape or size different for any
reason to be given: But only a Custom always used to have them so. The
Head is commonly made of _Beech_.
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