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Mechanick Exercises (Printing)
Joseph Moxon
book · 1683–1684
Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises (Printing).
Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing
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Composing stick is used in Workshop.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Composing-stick as the compositor’s adjustable iron tray for setting lines of letter in the printing-house, provided by the Master-Printer for apprentices and shared title measures. A named Composing-stick in that shop speech, not a frisket, not a tympan, and not a platen.
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Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats Cases as the divided frames that hold Letter sorts for the compositor — Upper and Lower Case laid so the hand reaches the most-used letters first. A named Case in that letter-holding speech, not a composing-stick, not a galley, and not a bare cabinet dump.
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Type galley is used in Book.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Galley as the shallow tray that receives composed lines and tied-up pages before imposing the sheet of a Book. A named Galley in that page-holding speech, not a war-galley, not a composing-stick, and not a chase.
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Printers chase is historically related to Iron.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Chase as an Iron Frame that locks pages and furniture on the Correcting-Stone — sides and crosses of iron filed square and flat. A named Chase in that iron-frame speech, not a galley tray, not a hunting chase, and not a bare picture frame.
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Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Frisket as the hinged mask the Press-man pins to the Tympan and cuts out page windows so margins stay clean when he Pulls. A named Frisket in that press-house speech, not a tympan, not a composing-stick, and not a platen.
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Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Tympan and Inner-Tympan as the framed packing (wood, iron, vellum, blankets) that carries the sheet under the Plattin when the Press-man Makes Ready and Pulls. A named Tympan in that press-house speech, not a frisket, not an architectural tympanum, and not a platen.
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Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats Balls — leather on Ball-stocks stuffed with wool or hair — as the Press-man’s tools for Taking Inck, Destributing, and Beating the Form before each Pull. A named Ball in that inking speech, not a brayer roller alone, not a desk inkwell, and not a bare ball dump.
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Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Brayer on the Inck-block as the turned beech rubber that mingles and rubs Inck (and Blacking when added) before the Press-man Takes Inck with the Balls. A named Brayer in that ink-block speech, not an ink-ball, not a press cylinder, and not a paint roller dump.
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Imposing stone is historically related to Stone.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Correcting-Stone as a flat Marble or Purbeck (or other hard) Stone on an oaken frame where the compositor Imposes and Corrects Forms in the Chase. A named stone working surface in that imposing speech, not a lithographic-stone, not a typecase, and not a bare table dump.
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Type metal is historically related to Lead.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats the Mettal Founders cast Printing-Letters of as Lead hardened with Iron (stub-Nails melted into the pots), stirred and cast into matrices. A named letter-metal in that founding speech, not bare plumbing lead alone, not a stereotype plate, and not antimony as identity.
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Blackletter is historically related to Letter.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats English Letter / English Character / Black English Letter beside Roman and Italick as a distinct face the compositor Sets for obsolete English words and that the Press-man Beats differently from roman. A named black-letter face in that letter-order speech, not fraktur alone, and not the published roman novel-word lemma.
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Copperplate is historically related to Copper.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises seats Copper Cuts and Letters Engraven in Copper Plates among the priced prints and Van Dijck letter models he exhibits — copper as the plate metal for those intaglio letter cuts, not a woodcut-block and not a lithographic-stone.
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Woodcut block is used in Book.
Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises still seats Wooden-Borders and Wooden-Letters, if well drawn and neatly cut, as printable in a Creditable Book beside metal Capitals now more common. A named wooden relief printing piece in that book-ornament speech, not a copperplate, not a bare plank, and not Koster origin-blocks alone.
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Ink is historically related to Iron gall ink.
Moxon’s printing and writing craft speech seats iron-gall recipes among inks used for durable black writing. A named ink beside iron-gall-ink as a chief historical recipe, not dye as cloth colour and not lampblack alone.
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