. The art of printing . APPENDIX. 189 These presses are worked by steam-power. Anengraving of the engine that drives the pressesin our Publishing House may be seen on thepreceding page. These presses are widely removed from thehand press, which is, however, still in use forsmall jobs. The old-fashioned hand press isrepresented in the following It may not be altogether useless to spreadbefore our readers a list of the signs used byproofreaders in correcting the press—which, bythe way, is a business which requires no smallliterary attainment as well as great care and atten-tion. On t
. The art of printing . APPENDIX. 189 These presses are worked by steam-power. Anengraving of the engine that drives the pressesin our Publishing House may be seen on thepreceding page. These presses are widely removed from thehand press, which is, however, still in use forsmall jobs. The old-fashioned hand press isrepresented in the following It may not be altogether useless to spreadbefore our readers a list of the signs used byproofreaders in correcting the press—which, bythe way, is a business which requires no smallliterary attainment as well as great care and atten-tion. On the succeeding pages we give a speci-men of proof-sheet, with the proofreaderscorrections and the explanation of the marksemployed by him. 4 190 APPENDIX. Peter SchoefTer is said to be the person who cast metal types, having learnedthe art-ef of cutting the letters fr^m the Gut- otembergs, he is also supposed to have been ^}$ the first whoengraved on copperplates. The — |foil-owing testimony is preseved in the family, rt^J by Jo. Fred. Faustus of AschefTenburg:^ $ ^Peter SchoefTer of Gernsheim, perceiving his \/ master Fausts design, and being himselftr. (desirous\ardently) to improve the art, foundout (by the good providence of God) the-f j^ethod of cutting (incidendi) the characters stet. in a matrix, that the letters mig
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