Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises

About this eBook

Author

Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691

Title

Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2) : The doctrine of handy-works applied to the art of printing

Original Publication

New York: The Typothetæ of the city of New York, 1896.

Credits

deaurider, Brian Wilsden and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Printing -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72217

Release Date

November 24, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.MOXON’S MECHANICK EXERCISES
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.MECHANICK EXERCISES:
5. 5.MECHANICK EXERCISES:
6. 6.MECHANICK EXERCISES: — §. 2. Of the Office of a Master -Printer. — ¶. 2. Of Letter. — §. 3. Of Cases. — §. 4. Of Frames to set the Cases on . — §. 5. Of the Galley. — §. 6. Of the Correcting-stone. — §. 7. Of Letter-Boards, and Paper-Boards. — §. 8. Of Furniture, Quoyns, Scabbord, &c. — §. 9. ¶. 1. Of the Mallet, Shooting-stick and Dressing-Block, Composing-sticks, Bodkin, and Chase. &c. — ¶. 2. Of the Shooting-stick. — ¶. 3. Of the Dressing-Block. — ¶. 4. Of the Composing-stick. — ¶. 5. Of the Bodkin. — ¶. 6. Of Chases, marked G on the Correcting-Stone, Plate 2.
7. 7.MECHANICK EXERCISES: — §. 10. Of the Press. — ¶. 1. Of the Feet. — ¶. 2. Of the Cheeks. — ¶. 3. Of the Cap marked c in Plate 5. — ¶. 4. Of the Winter marked d in Plate 5. — ¶. 5. Of the Head marked e in Plate 5. — ¶. 6. Of the Till, marked f in Plate 5. — ¶. 7. Of the Hind-Posts marked a a in Plate 6. — §. 4. the Fore and Back-Rails of the Case-Frames was. — ¶. 8. Of the Ribs marked b in Plate 6. — ¶. 9. Of the Carriage, Coffin and its Planck, marked a in Plate 7. — ¶. 10. Of the Tympan and Inner-Tympan, marked b in Plate 7. — ¶. 11. Of the Inck-Block, Slice, Brayer, and Catch of the Bar, marked c d e f in Plate 7. — ¶. 12. Of the Iron-work, and first of the Spindle marked A in Plate 8. — §. 11. Of the Worms of the Spindle. — ¶. 1. The Worms for Printing-Press Spindles must be projected with such a declivity, as that they may come down at an assigned progress of the Bar . — ¶. 13. Of the Bar marked B in Plate 8. — ¶. 14. Of the Hose, Garter, and Hose-Hooks. — ¶. 15. Of the Ribs, and Cramp-Irons. — ¶. 16. Of the Spindle for the Rounce, described in Plate 9. at a. — ¶. 17. Of the Press-Stone. — ¶. 18. Of the Plattin marked d in Plate 9. — ¶. 19. Of the Points and Point-Screws. — ¶. 20. Of the Hammer, described at h, and Sheeps-Foot described at i in Plate 9. — ¶. 21. Of the Foot-step, Girts, Stay of the Carriage, Stay of the Frisket, Ball-Stocks, Paper-Bench, Lye-Trough, Lye-Brush, Lye-Kettle, Tray to wet Paper in , Weights to Press Paper, Pelts, or Leather, Wool or Hair, Ball-Nails or Pumping-Nails. — ¶. 22. Of Racks to Hang Paper on, and of the Peel. — ¶. 23. Of Inck.
8. 8.MECHANICK EXERCISES: — §. 12. ¶. 1. Of Letter-Cutters Tools. — ¶. 2. Of the Using-File. — ¶. 3. Of the Flat-Gage. — ¶. 4. Of the Sliding-Gage. — ¶. 5. Of the Face-Gages, marked C in Plate 10. — ¶. 6. Of Italick, and other Standing Gages. — ¶. 7. Of the Liner. — ¶. 8. Of the Flat-Table. — ¶. 9. Of the Tach. — ¶. 10. Of Furnishing the Work-Bench. — §. 13. ¶. 1. Of Letter-Cutting. — ¶. 2. Of Counter-Punches. — ¶. 3. Of Sinking the Counter-Punches. — ¶. 4. Of Graving and Sculping the Insides of Steel Letters. — ¶. 5. Some Rules he considers in using the Gravers, Sculptors, Small Files, &c. — §. 14. ¶. 1. Some Rules to be observed by the Letter-Cutter, in the Cutting Roman, Italick, and the Black English Letter. — ¶. 2. Of Terms relating to the Face of Letters, and their Explanation.
9. 9.MECHANICK EXERCISES: — §. 15. ¶. 1. Of making the Mold. — ¶. 2. Of the Bottom-Plate. — ¶. 3. Of the Carriage. — ¶. 4. Of the Body. — ¶. 5. Of the Male-Gage. — ¶. 6. Of the Mouth-Piece. — ¶. 7. Of the Register. — ¶. 8. Of the Nick. — ¶. 9. Of the Bow or Spring . — ¶. 10. Of the Hooks, or Haggs. — ¶. 11. Of the Woods of the Mold. — §. XVII. ¶. 1. Of Sinking the Punches into the Matrices. — ¶. 2. Justifying the Matrices. — ¶. 3. Of Botching-Matrices, to make them serve the better . — Sect. XVIII, Of setting up the Furnance. — ¶. 2. Of making Mettal. — ¶. 3. Of Letter-Ladles. — §. XIX. ¶. 1. Of Casting, Breaking, Rubbing, Kerning, and setting up of Letters. — ¶. 2. Some Rules and Circumstances to be observed in Casting. — ¶. 3. Of Breaking off Letters. — ¶. 4. Of Rubbing of Letters. — ¶. 5. Of Kerning of Letters. — ¶. 6. Of Setting up, or Composing Letters. — ¶. 7. Some Rules and Circumstances to be observed in Setting up Letters. — §. 20. ¶. 1. Of Dressing of Letters. — ¶. 2. Of the Dressing-Sticks. — ¶. 3. Of the Block-Grove, and its Appurtenances. — ¶. 3. Of the Dressing-Hook. — ¶. 4. Of the Dressing-Knife. — ¶. 5. Of the Plow. — §. 21. ¶. 1. Of Dressing of Letters. — ¶. 2. Some Rules and Circumstances to be observed in Dressing of Letters.

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