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![[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-409x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Pictures from The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges by William Blades (1824 – 1890), Typographer, Chicago, 1891; I have added the captions.
Title: Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges
Published by: A.C.M. McCLVRG & Co.
City: Chicago
Date: 1891
Total items: 21
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-detail-vintage-fruitbowl-ornament-q75-320x200.jpg "[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]")
This woodcut design was used as a decorative ornament on the title page of the Life of William Caxton edited by John Lewis. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Typographia and cherubs setting type]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/typographia-360x200.jpg "[picture: Typographia and cherubs setting type]")
Typographia stands with her robe and chain(??), holding a book out to a cherub with a press; another cherub sets type. [$]
![[picture: Learned gentlemen dispute amicably by torchlight]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/discourse-into-the-night-372x200.jpg "[picture: Learned gentlemen dispute amicably by torchlight]")
Two learned robed, bearded and barefoot gentlemen converse, books in their lap. The smoke-filled scene is lit by a single flame. [$]
![[picture: A naughty cherub makes handprints]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/cherubs-with-handprints-761x200.jpg "[picture: A naughty cherub makes handprints]")
A naughty cherub makes handprints on everything, including his naked companion [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-164x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing
The outside of the book. [$]
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