Items tagged typesetting accessories in MV Collections

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  Quoin Key - Typesetting, Small, Late 19th Century

  This key is used to lock small quoins into place when setting up type in a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 0
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  Quoin Key - Typesetting, Large, Late 19th Century

  This key is used to lock large quoins into place when setting up type in a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1
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  Setting Stick - Typesetting, Late 19th Century

  This stick is used for setting up lines of type before placing the line into the forme. A compositor selected type from a type case one letter at a time. The letters were placed in a ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1
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  Quoin - Typesetting, Late 19th Century

  Quoins are clamps used to lock type into place within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed in ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1
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  Quoin - Typesetting, Late 19th Century

  Quoins are clamps used to lock type into place within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed in ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1
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  Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century

  Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 4
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  Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century

  Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a chase. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2
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  Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century

  Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 4
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  Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century

  Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 4
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  Forme - Newspaper, Handset, Monotype, 1850-1900, Assembled 2008

  This is a printing forme handset with monotype, using 19th century type and typesetting items. The type has been set up to reproduce the first page and other sections of the first prin ...

  From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 3