Glossary

(Ger.) Distribute

Type with a 5 1/2-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

(Ger.) Job printing

(Ger.) Proof press or galley press

(Ger.) Feeder

(Ger.) Roman

(Ger.) Tympan sheet

(Ger.) Flyer or layer

(Ger.) Space

(Dutch) Letterpress

(Dutch) Letterpress printer

(Ger.) Sheet

Type on a 9-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

Upper-case

Type on an 8-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

Type on a 3 1/2-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

(Ger.) Letterpress

(Ger.) Printer

(Ger.) Letterpress shop or printing office

(Ger.) Hand made paper

An iron or steel frame, in which forms are locked, so that they may be held firmly on the bed of the chase. [cite:...

(Fr.) The chase [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

In a wooden hand-press, the main upright posts into which the other heavy pieces were fastened… [cite: American...

(Dutch) Platen press

Type on a 4 1/2-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

The person who finishes type with vertical kerns. [cite: Practical Typecasting, Rehak, 1993]

The depth of the character within the matrix; measured from the bearing surface of the matrix to the casting surface of...

(Ger.) Press or printing press

(Ger.) Block or cut

(Ger.) Lead, reglet or space line

Une espace fine (fem.) is the French term for a fine space, normally espace is mascular, but the typographicel space...

(Ger.) Ampersand

Type on a 3-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

(Ger.) Ductor blade

(Ger.) Ink slab or inking table

(Ger.) Ink roller

(Ger.) Inking unit

Typographical ornament, generally small, sometimes in the shape of a flower, used to mark text openings and other...

(Ger.) Forme roller

(Ger.) Blackletter

On a hand press, the thin metal frame, hinged to the tympan, that protects the margins of the paper from becoming...

(Ger.) Bed

Galley

(Ger.) Electro type

(Ger.) Em (quad)

(Ger.) Sans- serif, grotesque or gothic

(Dutch) Foundry type

(Ger.) Hand compositor or type setter

(Ger.) Hand roller

(Ger.) Wood type

(Ger.) Wood-cut

leading

Standard commercial working font, primarily for proofing and sundry projects. [cite: Practical Typecasting, Rehak...

(Ger.) Block or cut

(Ger.) Quadrat on 4 cicero

(Ger.) Proof

(Ger.) Proof press or galley press

(Ger.) Italic

Typefoundry

(Dutch) Typecase

(Dutch) Type specimen

Type on a 10-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

(Ger.) Matrix

Type on a 7-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

(Ger.) Reprint [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

A groove cast into the body of a type for purposes of identification… [cite: Practical Typecasting, Rehak, 1993]

(Ital.) Nonpareil, but slightly larger than ours. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

(Fr.) Uncut; the leaves not cut open for reading. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

A small type much used in book and job offices and on newspapers. In size it is between agat and minion, and equals in...

(Ger.) The signature. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

A mechanical appliance for numbering or paging purposes. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

(Fr.) Numbering Machine [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

A sheet of paper folded into eight leaves. Commonly speaking, it is restricted to the size obtained by folding sheets...

That portion of ink which leaves a newly printed sheet and is deposited on another sheet…
In Australia...

(Ger.) Octavo. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

An appellation for an old pressman in bygone days. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

lower-case

A term employed by printers to express fat and well-leaded work. It also stands for work having many blanks. [cite:...

(Sp.) Border. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

When a certain letter has been set out, the case having no more, the compositor is said to be out of sorts. [cite:...

When a book is not cut square. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

The top or bottom sheets of a ream, often damaged and called retree. Prob. from the French retirée, or withdrawn; the...

(Ital.) A compositor who makes up type into pages. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

(Ital and Sp.) A page. In Italian, however, there is no accent. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking...

(Ger.) To number pages. To number leaves is called Foliiren.

also: Codex Rescriptus. – The name given to a parchment or other piece of writing materialfrom which, after it had...

(Sp.) To plane (a form). [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

(Ger.) Punch

Type on a 5-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

The act of printing the second side or reiteration of a sheet. [cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking...

(Ger.) Parchment.

Type on a 12-point body. [cite: Type specimens : ornaments, borders, corners, brass rules, emblems, body type /...

Type broken or indiscriminately mixed. This spelling is used to some extent, but American authority is clear that...

(Fr.) Platen

A small font used for limited proofing or a collector’s sample. [cite: Practical Typecasting, Rehak, 1993]

(Ger.) Embossing press

(Dutch) Proof press

(Ger.) - The Frisket [Cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

(Ger.) The Chase [Cite: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)]

The right side of a leaf, having an odd-numbered page or folio.