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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: Old Iron Composing Stick]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/053a1-Old-Iron-Composing-Stick-28x200.jpg "[picture: Old Iron Composing Stick]"){kind=small}
Not mentioned in the text, but see the fifteenth century composing stick for details. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Reproduction of title page from Watson's History of Printing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/110-JamesWatson-HistoryOfPrinting-titlepage-q85-119x200.jpg "[picture: Reproduction of title page from Watson's History of Printing]")
Reproduction of title page from Watson’s History of Printing
This reproduction of the title page of The History of the Art of Printing printed by James Watson in 1713 is included in the last chapter (Judges) of the “Pentateuch of Printing.” [more...] [$]
![[picture: Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Blades-Pentateuch/wm/big/038-Bas-Relief-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey]")
Bas-Relief From the Entablature, Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey
A printing office, with an engraver (I think) at left, a proof-reader, a typesetter (at the back) next to the person operating the press itself, and, at right, a boy wearing tights and I think barefoot, probably a [...] [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: 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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