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  • Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.
  • A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.
  • A printing press: seen from the side. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing: three-quarter view and details of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production. Engraving by Mutlow after J. Farey.
  • A woman personifying typography crowns a naked boy with a golden serpent; representing printing conferring immortality on the arts, sciences and literature. Coloured engraving by E. J. Roberts after H.J. Richter.
  • Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving. 18--, after Stradanus, ca.1580.
  • Printing. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A printing press, for copper plates, with many details. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Typesetters at work, putting type into composing-sticks (above), type, spaces, a composing-stick, and a forme (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Optics: microscopy, including a magnified title page and a specimen holder. Engraving by Barlow.
  • Printing engravings from copper plates: two men inking the plates, another operating the press (top), equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Type punches, tweezers etc. (top), with specimens of roman and italic fonts (below). Engraving by Aubin after himself, Defehrt dirext.
  • A large and busy composing-room at a Parisian [?] printers' establishment. Wood engraving by Trichon Monvoisin [F. A. Trichon] after P. Blanchard.
  • Printing. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Clarendon Building, Oxford: panoramic view with the Bodleian Library and Sheldonian Theatre. Line engraving.
  • Printing: equipment for inking the type, etc. Engraving by R. Bénard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A printing press, rolling press, cider press and potash kiln with constituent parts. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Printing: inking the type and operating the press (above), plan of the press (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Plan (top), and three-quarter view (below), of a type case, lettered for a key. Engraving by Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: a pair of large presses for block printing calico. Engraving by J. Carter after T. Allom, 1834.
  • A rotary lithographic [?] printing machine, tended by workmen, some wearing paper hats. Engraving.
  • Printing: cleaning formes (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing: 24 sheet imposition. Engraving by R. Bénard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing: a three-quarter view of a press. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey, 1819.
  • A printer's workshop: on the left a printing press, on the right and centre workmen engaged in various tasks, the scene numbered for a key. Engraving after L.J. Goussier.
  • Composing-sticks, formes, and chases for typesetting. Engraving by Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Techniques for engraving maps (top), and musical notation (below): tools shown between. Engraving by Defehrt (maps) and Madame de Lusse (music).