Typographia, Or the Printers' Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century: a Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday Characters: Together with an Elucidation of Every Subject Connected with the Art, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824 - 663 pages |
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Page 226 - Aschaffenburg : •PETER SCHOEFFER, of Gernsheim, perceiving his master Faust's design, and being himself ardently desirous to improve the art, found out (by the good providence of God...
Page 433 - For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth...
Page 338 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates : and Josiah went out against him. 21. But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war : for God commanded me to make haste : forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Page 344 - And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
Page 438 - The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
Page 583 - all Pamphlets and Papers ' containing any Public News, Intelligence or Occurrences, or any ' Remarks or Observations thereon, or upon any Matter in Church ' or State, printed in any part of the United Kingdom for Sale, ' and published periodically, or in Parts or Numbers, at Intervals ' not exceeding Twenty-six Days...
Page 140 - ... to be permitted except in very narrow measures ; and, frequently, even then with care it might partly be prevented. What is commonly Called the thick space is the proper separator between each word ; though this rule cannot always be adhered to in narrow measures when large type is used. It is not sufficient merely to have a line here and there uniformly spaced: a careful compositor will give every page that uniformity of appearance which is a chief excellency.
Page 226 - ... matrices, Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed. But there were as many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with wooden ones, the metal being too soft to support the force of the impression : but this defect was soon remedied, by mixing the metal with a substance which sufficiently hardened it.
Page 321 - And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Page 344 - And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal ; he made the altar hollow with boards.