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Record ID 360498
Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.263 (1819-1848, Type: Other). Page: 739
Luckombes Hist of Printing 8vo [DavI] 3.30
Borrowed: 1824/6/3 (Thursday). Returned: 1824/7/13 (Tuesday).
Mr John Graham Dalyell
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1797. Life dates: 1775-1851.
Occupation (normalised): Independent Means > Landowner/Landlord/Laird. Law > Advocate.
Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803)
Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
History and art of printing [Luckombe]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: RB.s.1128.
Confidence level: Certain
Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803)
Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The history and art of printing. In two parts. Part I. containing I. A Concise History of the Art from its Invention to the present Time; with the several Charters granted to the Company of Stationers. II. Specimens of Printing Types of all Sizes, and various Languages, Music Types, Flowers and Ornaments. Part II. treating of I. The necessary Materials made use of in a Printing Office-Of the different Pounts of Letter, their Properties, Size, and Application; with Tables to shew the Difference there is between the several Bodies of Letter, and how one gets in or drives out more than another. - Of Points, Quadrate, Spaces, Rules, Braces, Quotations, Flowers, &c. &c. II. Of Printing Presses, their Construction and Use particulars described, with a Drawing of a Press, and of its several Parts, cut in Wood. III. Of Wetting Paper, Knocking up Balls, Pulling, Printing different Colours, and other necessary Rules and Directions for the Pressman. IV. Or the Compositor’s Business, viz. Dressing of Chaces, Composing, Spacing, Tying up Pages, Imposing, &c. with a great Variety of Examples and useful Tables. V. Of Correctors and Correcting, with Directions to Authors how to mark Corrections in their Proof Sheets. VI. Of Casting off Copy. Vii. Alphabets and Characters of various Languages and Sciences. Viii. Of the Business requisite to be done in the Warehouse, and the Duty of the Warehouseman. IX. An Explanation of Technical Terms used in Printing. The Whole forming a more intelligible and complete Introduction to the Art of Printing than has been hitherto attempted, and containing a great Variety of Instructions and Examples that are not to be found in any other Performance.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: T86116
Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803)
Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
History and Art of Printing
Borrowed: 1824/6/3 (Thursday). Returned: 1824/7/13 (Tuesday).
Borrower: Mr John Graham Dalyell
Author: Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803), Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Record ID 380544
Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/50 (1819-1819, Type: Other). Page: 130
Luckcombe's History of printing 8vo
Borrowed: 1819/6/19 (Saturday). Returned: 1819/7/19 (Monday).
Mr William Archibald Caddell of Banton
Gender: Male. Address: 20 Elder Street, Boldocks Lodgings, Edinburgh.
Admission date: 1798. Life dates: 1755-1855.
Occupation (normalised): Law > Advocate.
Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803)
Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
History and art of printing [Luckombe]
Possible modern shelfmark: NLS: RB.s.1128.
Confidence level: Certain
Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803)
Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
The history and art of printing. In two parts. Part I. containing I. A Concise History of the Art from its Invention to the present Time; with the several Charters granted to the Company of Stationers. II. Specimens of Printing Types of all Sizes, and various Languages, Music Types, Flowers and Ornaments. Part II. treating of I. The necessary Materials made use of in a Printing Office-Of the different Pounts of Letter, their Properties, Size, and Application; with Tables to shew the Difference there is between the several Bodies of Letter, and how one gets in or drives out more than another. - Of Points, Quadrate, Spaces, Rules, Braces, Quotations, Flowers, &c. &c. II. Of Printing Presses, their Construction and Use particulars described, with a Drawing of a Press, and of its several Parts, cut in Wood. III. Of Wetting Paper, Knocking up Balls, Pulling, Printing different Colours, and other necessary Rules and Directions for the Pressman. IV. Or the Compositor’s Business, viz. Dressing of Chaces, Composing, Spacing, Tying up Pages, Imposing, &c. with a great Variety of Examples and useful Tables. V. Of Correctors and Correcting, with Directions to Authors how to mark Corrections in their Proof Sheets. VI. Of Casting off Copy. Vii. Alphabets and Characters of various Languages and Sciences. Viii. Of the Business requisite to be done in the Warehouse, and the Duty of the Warehouseman. IX. An Explanation of Technical Terms used in Printing. The Whole forming a more intelligible and complete Introduction to the Art of Printing than has been hitherto attempted, and containing a great Variety of Instructions and Examples that are not to be found in any other Performance.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1771. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: T86116
Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803)
Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
History and Art of Printing
Borrowed: 1819/6/19 (Saturday). Returned: 1819/7/19 (Monday).
Borrower: Mr William Archibald Caddell of Banton
Author: Philip Luckombe (Male, died 1803), Genre: History, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge