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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: The ``lay'' of a pair of type cases (lower case).]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/052-The-Lay-of-a-pair-of-type-cases-b-q75-441x200.jpg "[picture: The ``lay'' of a pair of type cases (lower case).]")
The “lay” of a pair of type cases (lower case).
This is the lower half of the figure, and shows (not by coincidence) how the miniscule letters, now called lower case letters, were stored in the type case. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Scriptorium Monk at Work]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/scriptorium-monk-at-work-213x200.jpg "[picture: Scriptorium Monk at Work]")
![[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-164x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing]")
Front Cover, Pentateuch of Printing
The outside of the book. [$]
![[picture: Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/053a2-Fifteenth-Century-Wooden-Composing-Stick-q75-243x200.jpg "[picture: Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick]")
Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick
“Standing in front of the case, the compositor held in his left hand a wooden “composing-stick,” in which a rectangular trench had been cut to receive the [more...] [$]
![[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/111-detail-vintage-fruitbowl-ornament-q75-320x200.jpg "[picture: Floriated fruitbowl ornament]")
This woodcut design was used as a decorative ornament on the title page of the Life of William Caxton edited by John Lewis. [more...] [$]
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