| 单词 | compositor |
| 例句 | At least these compositors are honest about that. In the galleries: In ‘Everyware,’ new-technology photo pieces exhibit nostalgia The text of each surviving first folio differs subtly from the others; compositors in the print shop constantly made corrections, introducing many textual uncertainties that still bedevil scholars and stage directors alike. Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z New print ... letters in a compositor's tray ready for locking into the press. Penguin Random House merger begins a new chapter for publishing 2013-01-07T15:11:37Z On leaving Harrow county school, he was apprenticed as a compositor and in 1939 enlisted in the RAF, serving as a fitter/armourer. John Pitson obituary 2011-02-20T17:57:51Z In later years, compositors — we called them printers — would use heavy cardboard flats to create mock-ups of each page, a job strictly restricted to members of the printers’ guild. Perspective | Book World began on Watergate’s heels: A look back at the early days 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The original artwork that Ms. Severin labored over, often under intense deadlines, was then sent to compositors and eventually printed on cheap, coarse paper to be sold to children for 10 cents. Marie Severin, versatile Hall of Fame comic-book illustrator, dies at 89 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Fraught with still greater danger is, however, the frequent practice of compositors of bringing their type-stained hands in contact with their lips or keeping eatables in composing rooms, etc. The paper that poisoned its printers 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z A newspaper compositor might work from 1pm to 4am, with breaks to sort the type back into slots, to eat and, inevitably, to drink. When newspaper compositors were sporting heroes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z As a compositor, she learned how to combine several visual elements into a believable on-screen image. Women and film: Is it still a man's world behind the camera? - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The business and financial discussion which customarily appears on this page in Monday morning’s issue of The Wall Street Journal was written Saturday evening and given to the compositors yesterday. Day of Infamy 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z At his press, it's a one-man show where he is the compositor as well as the pressman. In pictures: India's dying printing tradition 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z I also need the money to hire some skilled compositors to help with the visuals effects on the show. Save The Realm: Spellfury Needs A Cut Of Your Treasure 2012-12-07T15:41:21Z IF YOU imagine there’s nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set type by hand. When newspaper compositors were sporting heroes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The handwriting was scholarly but curiously legible, betraying the habit of a dabbler in strange words who printed rather than wrote, lest some playful compositor should invent a new and confounding philology. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z He was offered a situation as compositor in a printing office in Paris, resumed the workman's dress, and courageously began to work. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In order to show at a glance whether the signature is the first or the second, the compositor adds an asterisk, thus— 1 1* or A A* first second first second signature. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z With illness, rampant absenteeism, drunkenness and individual speed variation, a fleet of compositors had to be available to get through a night’s work. When newspaper compositors were sporting heroes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z I have attempted no arrangement of them, not even a chronological one; the compositor has shuffled them at his own sweet will. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Thus he was, at the same time, compositor, pressman, and carrier. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The American compositor, conceiving that he had a right to correct the blunders of a foreigner, took the law into his own hands, and exercised a sovereign power over the author's orthography. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z I made a friend of one of the compositors of the Free Press office, and persuaded him to show me every day a 'galley-proof' of the most important news article. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Punters would cheer on the compositors, who would be docked for errors by proofreaders later. When newspaper compositors were sporting heroes 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In Berlin the pressmen struck, but not the compositors; one newspaper could appear, another not. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Here he was associated with a large number of workmen, both compositors and pressmen. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The smaller letters are called lower-case, from the case in which the compositor has them arranged; the capitals and small capitals being in a different or upper case. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The former had been a compositor, but now had no means of livelihood whatever. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z It was his task to find the printers, buy the paper, and hire the qualified compositors for setting the type. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z —I am a compositor, and have read with great interest the "Notes" on Caxton and Printing in your valuable publication. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z Companies were as hopelessly jumbled and mixed as a galley of type that a compositor has dropped downstairs. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z I bet you one million pounds," said Mr. Mablethorpe with great precision, "that the condemned printing-firm employed by my unmentionable publishers has taken into its adjectival employment an asterisked staff of obelised female compositors. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z There is plenty of manipulating power in the great body of compositors to effect these changes. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Meanwhile the city editor's assistants gathered up the finished sheets and carried them away to be hastily edited and shot upward to the compositors. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The boy of fifteen was editor, compositor, and newsvendor in one. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z They must all have been printed at Naples, for the Roman police has to look after the consciences not only of the Post-office secretaries and letter-carriers, but of the compositors, printers, bookbinders and booksellers. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z "How are you so certain about the female compositors?" asked Philip. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Nor is there any neglect in the labours that wait upon the work of the compositors. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Let your writing be large enough, and plain enough to be read with ease, and the compositor will be less likely to make mistakes. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z He then entered a printing office as compositor and began his literary career by composing his first articles in type while working at the case. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z The newspaper offices by the employment of hand compositors were able to produce papers on December seventh but in limited editions and of reduced size. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z Male compositors cannot spell, of course; in fact, very few of them can read. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Contrivances to economize labour, such as that of the needle-sorter's sheath, and the nicks in the type of the compositor, are constantly occurring in manufactures. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z I was told by a printer that the phrase had originated among those of his craft, since young compositors experience great difficulty in discriminating between the types of the two letters. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-09-25T02:00:16.433Z He returned to San Francisco and became compositor in the office of The Golden Era. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z God yield you = God reward you: the compositor has duplicated the d of God in the next word: cf. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z The partnership, however, turned out very ill; and Ged, broken-hearted at his want of success due to trade jealousy and the compositors’ dislike of the innovation, died in poverty on the 19th of October 1749. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z There is a very simple contrivance to lessen the labour of the compositor, by preventing him putting the type into his composing-stick the wrong side outwards. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z In copying manuscripts there was no such strictness as in a modern printing-office, where "follow your copy" is the compositor's rule. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z But my grandfather, a working compositor, learned and well lettered, transcribed into modern Breton all the manuscripts that were in Gallic. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z He soon became an expert compositor, and after a time began to write anonymously for the Herald. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z You'll probably get it back adorned with the impress of the compositor's thumb in black ink! The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z When out of his apprenticeship, he worked for eight years as a compositor, reader, and overseer, and then, marrying his late master's daughter, set up for himself, and slowly but steadily grew prosperous and respected. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z When at last the scribbling was over; when the proofs had been read and re-read and corrected till the compositors went mad; then the speechifying had to begin. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z There a toll of five shillings for drink was demanded of him by the other compositors as the price of his admission to their society. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Thursday, April 13th.—A provincial paper lately referred to Mr. McKenna as the "Cancellor"—a humorous compositor's way, no doubt, of indicating the modifications in the Budget. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 2011-08-07T02:00:07.573Z It seems, therefore, that Lariab is a misprint of the Italian compositors, and that Parias was the word in the manuscript of Vespucci. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career 2011-08-02T02:00:24.457Z “It isn’t true, sir,” I cried indignantly; when a compositor came up to the door, and Mr Grimstone was called away. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z You wondered at the time that we should have such miserable compositors in our secret printing-establishments, because you found whole words wrong. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z Andrew Bradford had not been bred to the business of printing, and was very illiterate, and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, and knew nothing of presswork. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z The compositors refused to set up works for stereotyping, and even those which were set up, however carefully read and corrected, were found to be full of gross errors. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z The intelligent compositor, instead of "following copy," had undertaken to interpret and translate the letters out of the depths of his own intuitions. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Two o’clock was signalled by the coming back of the compositors, who resumed their white aprons and rolled up their sleeves, when the sharp clicking noise went on as before. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z His accurate taste was shocked by little mechanical deficiencies—the carelessness of compositors and proofreaders—the impossibility of getting a Greek quotation set up correctly. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z This was less than he was earning at the time as a compositor, but Mr. Denham's offer held out the prospect of a better future on the whole to him. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z The types set up by the compositors are not sent to the machine. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z Presently Palmer wanted him up stairs, among the compositors. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z In what is it kept for the compositor’s use? Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 2011-06-12T02:00:07.280Z It is better for me to make myself merely the compositor of this history and copy off the painful letter which Gustavus sent to his forfeited friend. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z Bradford had been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z At that time his handwriting was so bad that when he began to feed the press, the compositors bought him a copybook and a penholder and begged him to use it. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z The roof of the building fell in, and the compositors’ room, with most of the cases of type, was destroyed. 13.—Dr. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z They enable the compositor to obtain the many different spacings required to make lines the required length, and to properly separate words and place them wherever desired in the line. Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 2011-06-12T02:00:07.280Z I saw a brave compositor Go hustling o'er the mead, Who bore a banner with these words: "Hurrah for Whitelaw Reid!" Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z One Whitemash, a compositor I had known in London, an excellent workman, now came to me, and worked with me constantly and diligently; and I took an apprentice, the son of Aquila Rose. Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) 2011-05-20T02:00:26.573Z Why compositors did not mob him I do not know. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z He conjured him to consider that recreation and holidays were indispensable to him, and urged it upon him that he should work, like a compositor, standing. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z When he was twenty-five he produced a type-casting machine; but so opposed was it by the compositors, that it was finally abandoned. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z They travelled together for company, being, so to speak, emergency journalists, compositors in their milder moments, and unaccustomed to these higher aspects of journalism. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z Bradford had not been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of press work. Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) 2011-05-20T02:00:26.573Z The local press had been kept going by native compositors who had issued quite an extensive literature both in Malagasy and English. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Instead of an Alexander, Greece would need now to send to Asia nothing but a–compositor; the conqueror grafts, the author sows. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z In the Department of Education we need artists and artisans, teachers, nurses, printers and binders, pressmen and compositors, one editor, scientists and lecturers, missionaries, actors, singers, and authors. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z Matthew Space, compositor, waited until the owner of the office came down, when, friendless as he was, Septimus Hardon was glad to turn even to this rough old waif of the streets in his helplessness. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z Soon after, Gluck and his one compositor carried out the formes to be machined. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z First Steps in Job CompositionBy Camille DeVèze Suggestions for the apprentice compositor in setting his first jobs, especially about the important little things which go to make good display in typography. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z I hadna long opened the house until the compositors and the pressmen, the bookbinders, gold-beaters, and others, a' came back to it. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 The young compositor, at twelve years of age, knew four words of Latin which he had picked up from an old bookseller, who had been a village teacher, and doted on grammar. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 In one of these he obtained the situation of compositor. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution At a quarter to twelve Gluck explained that a column of matter already set up had been 'pied' by a careless compositor. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z First Steps in Job Composition By Camille DeV�ze Suggestions for the apprentice compositor in setting his first jobs, especially about the important little things which go to make good display in typography. Abbreviations and Signs A Primer of Information about Abbreviations and Signs, with Classified Lists of Those in Most Common Use The books we read have lost something of the charm of the illuminated manuscript; our compositors and linotypers, it may be, have forgotten something of the piety and devotion of the mediæval scribe and copyist. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude For company he had occasionally his grandfather who came to see them, and always, without interruption, an industrious spider, that worked at the compositor's side, and even more assiduously than he. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 He at length went to Rome, and there became a compositor for the press of the Propaganda. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" No gold or silver glitters in the modern adytum, or editor's room, and the tripod from which we distribute our afflatus to the compositors is a wooden three-legged stool, unpainted and uncushioned. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Another time I incorporated in a newspaper article a quotation from Emerson, but the compositor omitted the inverted commas, and Emerson's sentence read as if it was mine. Rambles in Womanland This is a work commanding considerable intelligence and experience, as the number of types required for a printed page is very great, and even the most expert compositor cannot avoid mistakes. The Story of Books It was proposed to get the compositor a situation in the Imperial printing-office. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The editor is also compositor, and the compositor and office boy are reporters. Hempfield A Novel Similarly, brickmakers refused to use any machinery; masons totally declined to set stones shaped and dressed by machinery; some compositors still object to work in offices where type-composing machines are introduced. Political economy In bookbinding, a “case” means the boards and back in which the books are bound; and in typography, the tray, divided into partitions, containing the type ready for the compositor’s use. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" This marked proof is returned to the compositor to make the necessary corrections. The Story of Books The handwriting of Junius could not be kept a secret for it went to the compositors. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence He marks these on the margins of the proof, and hands it back to the compositors, each of whom corrects the mistakes appearing in the portion he has set. Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 If he did, an invisible compositor had set them up in the west window for the one lad, and on a corner of the ceiling for the other. Windyridge Watts after some weeks desiring to have me in the composing-room, I left the pressmen: a new bien venu or sum for drink, being five shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 When the corrected proofs are returned by the author they are given to the compositor, who makes the required alterations in the type. The Story of Books Once in committee, it is ordered printed, and the first draught, often bearing the compositor's marks, may be returned to the author of the measure as a souvenir. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 ‘Fall’: 1657; in the earlier versions ‘name,’ caught up by the compositor, in error, from the succeeding line. Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. Female compositors are now largely employed in job and newspaper offices, but it is only fair to state the objections to their following this trade. Work for Women Alas! chapter after chapter vanished away, leaving the paper clean, as if no compositor had ever labored in setting type for it. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Arcade, thanks to his celestial intelligence, soon knew how to set up type and became, in a short time, a good compositor. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The same symptoms are observed and the same remarks apply mutatis mutandis in the case of musicians, artists, compositors, seamstresses, tailors and many mechanics in whom this affection may occur. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Careless compositors are prone to huddle new type together, and grasping them by handfulls plunge them pell-mell into the box, rudely shaking them down to crowd in more. Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades Employers who have employed female compositors say that they cause a great deal of trouble. Work for Women And we write necessarily so much in advance of printing, that our quarter of the globe might change its rulers between our pen and the type of our compositor. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 He writes on large sheets, of quarto size, and never makes an outline; the compositor gets the manuscript as it was written, with a few, but not many, alterations. Methods of Authors With the text of the Dublin copy to guide his calculations, no compositor could have committed the error of pronouncing that matter which covers 115 pages could he contained in 88. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition How it came to be buried thus some compositor may know. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Notwithstanding all these objections, however, which a woman can weigh and take for what they are worth, the trade of a compositor is a very good one. Work for Women It was an "acted newspaper," where paragraphs, military and naval, social, scandalous, and commercial, were fabricated with a speed no "compositor" could have kept up with. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas When his manuscript is finished and corrected, he has it copied by a professional copyist, whereupon it goes to the compositor. Methods of Authors “Adman” Cabinet has equipment for two compositors, supply of leads and slugs and assortment of materials such as brass and copper thin spaces and quads. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture Mr. W. H. Bowden, who subsequently became overseer, then joined his father as compositor, and the first chapters of The Glittering Plain were set up. The Art and Craft of Printing She can never hope to perform as much work as a first-class male compositor; that is a physical impossibility. Work for Women Judge Graney had told him that if he succeeded in finding the compositor he would have him at the Kicker office this morning. The Coming of the Law The plan consisted in abridging the compositors' labour by casting all the more frequently recurring words in metal. Old and New London Volume I The closed-in cabinet is the modern plan for a compositor's working stand and for holding cases of type in common use. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture The poet is a compositor; words are his types; he must have them within reach, and in unlimited abundance. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century He had however tried many trades,—had been in turn a compositor, bookseller, sporting writer, newspaper reporter, and even secretary to an Irish theatrical manager. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. He used to hire a compositor from Las Vegas to set the type,–a man named Potter–a worthless sort of fellow, but a genius in his way–when sober. The Coming of the Law As early as 1804 a compositor named Martyn had invented a machine for the purpose of superseding the hand-press, which took hours struggling over the three or four thousand copies of the Times. Old and New London Volume I They are planned to concentrate the frequently used material near to the compositor's hands, to enable him to save the time occupied in going from place to place about the room. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture Mr. Robinson, my old compositor, made a speech, abusing the editors; but the editors have succeeded in putting down for the present the cry for bread. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The compositor should ground himself thoroughly in the principles and rules. Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 Unfortunately words had the same tendency to refuse to fit the line that bothers the modern compositor. Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 A copy of the Times has been known to contain 4,000 advertisements; and for every daily copy it is computed that the compositors mass together not less than 2,500,000 separate types. Old and New London Volume I Galley—A shallow tray used by compositors to hold type after the lines have been set and transferred from the composing stick. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture In the offices of the big dailies each sheet is cut into takes, numbered consecutively, and sent to as many different compositors. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The whole is concluded by practical advice to the compositor as to the use of the rules in the actual work of the office. Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 A new bien-venu for drink, being five shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Richardson seems to have been an amiable and benevolent man, kind to his compositors and servants and beloved by children. Old and New London Volume I When conveniently situated and properly supplied with material they save time and effort on the part of the compositor. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture Take.—The portion of copy taken at once by a compositor for setting up. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories If it is clear that the author knows what he wants, the compositor should follow copy. Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 He has never been surpassed in the editorial faculty, at the same time being apt as compositor, pressman, verse-maker, compiler and reporter; but as adviser, satirist and humorist he was perhaps at his best. Famous Firesides of French Canada One afternoon, says Mr. Grant, he came to the office and found the compositors gone to dinner. Old and New London Volume I Among the new articles supplied for the compositor's use are cabinets for holding assortments of metal furniture, brass rules, leads, slugs, and small cases or drawers for special material. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture Copy Cutter.—An assistant in the composing room who receives copy from the head copy reader, or editor, cuts it into takes, and distributes the takes to the compositors to set up. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories What is the duty of the compositor in these cases, especially when doubtful? Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 Hence, I think, its lack of formal completeness of versification in certain passages, and also of the imperfection in its text, the thought in which the compositors were not always able to follow and apprehend. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Though this was less than the sum Franklin was then earning, as compositor, there were prospects of his advancement. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series Dump—The place in a composing room where dead matter is kept until it is distributed; sometimes said of a standing galley where compositors place their composed lines to be assembled for proofing, etc. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture Follow Copy.—An instruction, written on the margin of manuscript, to the compositor that he must follow copy exactly, even though the matter may seem wrong. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories For the rest, compositors, pressmen, mechanics, clerks, et al., were of a class distinct in themselves. Dickens' London “It’s got to go to the compositors right away.” Carmen Ariza I made a friend of one of the compositors of the Free Press office, and persuaded him to show me every day a galley-proof of the most important news articles. Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades A case lying perfectly flat must be somewhat lower, in relation to the compositor's arms, than when it is resting at an inclination, in order to take types from it with the same facility. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture That says to the compositor, "Make in the proofs a black ruled line for later insertion of a cut." News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories It is like the compositor distributing his type after the book is printed. Under the Maples In 1706 Richardson was apprenticed to a London printer, served a diligent apprenticeship, and worked as a compositor until he rose, late in life, to be master of the Stationers' Company. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Well, one day my compositor brought me a proof-slip of which nearly the whole was taken up with a gigantic display head. Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades Lower Case—The bottom case of a pair of book or news cases, which rests nearest the compositor. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture Style Book.—The printed book of rules followed by reporters, copy-readers, and compositors. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The micro-organisms answer to the compositor, but they are of a different kind from those which build up the body in the first instance. Under the Maples He didn’t want to become a compositor; and to be a sailor—that would have suited him, but his mother was opposed to it. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland Kindly is often misused in such expressions as "You are kindly requested to recommend a compositor." Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Stand—The working frame at which a compositor sets type; in distinction from a cabinet, which has closed sides and no back. Type Cases and Composing-room furniture The first thing for a reporter to do on beginning work in an office is to ask for the style-book, the manual for the guidance of reporters, copy-readers, and compositors. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories But, you see, Christmas comes next week, and the compositors won't work. Dreamers of the Ghetto If he were only willing to be a compositor! or an apprentice in the shoe-business. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland With much the same feeling the old-time hand compositors looked upon the coming of the typesetting machine. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions If the paragraph completes the page, a paragraph sign also should be put at the end, to indicate to the compositor that he may conclude his "take" with a broken line. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Wives were wanting to finish the completeness of the quarrel, which existed one memorable Christmas week, some dozen years ago, between the two neighbours, the two compositors. The Grey Woman and other Tales The compositor brings this about by arranging his words and spaces skillfully. Makers of Many Things She established a printing office in San Francisco in 1860, in which she employed a large number of girls and women as compositors. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The compositor follows copy; the incoming succeeds the outgoing official. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Irremediable confusion would be caused for a foreman who tried to handle copy written on both sides, for each take would contain a part of some other compositor's copy. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories He was chief compositor, or whatever title may be given to the head-man of the mechanical part of a newspaper. The Grey Woman and other Tales Those letters which are used most often are put where the compositor can reach them most readily. Makers of Many Things Here at once he found a vocation suited to his tastes and became a rapid and accurate compositor. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History A short time afterward, the Emperor Maximilian, erecting the printers and compositors into a species of intellectual priesthood, relieved them by the nobility of their occupation from all degradation of rank. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Such directions are always enclosed in rings so that the compositor may not set them in the story. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories It is illiberal to reject him as a compositor or as a clerk, or in any capacity in which his opinions would not affect his work for the paper. Liberalism The type is kept in a case at which the compositor stands. Makers of Many Things "Shall I go ahead and paste any more of these, Anderson?" inquired the compositor, shifting his quid. Anderson Crow, Detective When he was earning 36s. a week as a compositor they were saving up to buy a home. The Big Bow Mystery End Mark.—A mark put at the end of a story to indicate to the compositor that the story is complete. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories In six months I was one of the school's regular compositors; and in one term I had sufficient credit with the treasurer to enter the day-school. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements In 1855, Anna McDowell founded The Woman's Advocate in Philadelphia, a paper in which, like that of Mrs. Anna Franklin, the owner, editor, and compositors were all women. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The lone compositor, with a bucket of paste, sallied forth and, under the critical eye of the town marshal, "stuck up" the poster in places where no one could help seeing it. Anderson Crow, Detective With the lines thus made up, the compositors are relieved of a great proportion of their labor. Paul and the Printing Press Longhand copy rarely is sent to the compositors nowadays. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The company claims that the machine is now perfect, and that each machine will perform as much work in setting type as ten average compositors. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 She was aided by her two daughters, who were correct and quick compositors. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Some one had paid the boy to set up and insert the obnoxious article and Jack knew that his theory that a poor compositor had done the work was correct. The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life With two such machines you might suppose that the compositor would have little to do. Paul and the Printing Press The big three's are the compositor's slug number. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories They monopolise the telephone, and are in great request as compositors. Through Finland in Carts She set her own type, and was such a ready compositor as to set up her editorials without written copy, while working at her case. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I And in the next a very careless compositor set this up. The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life The compositors, of course, will previously have been busy setting type; but you can get an idea how that is done in a very short time. Paul and the Printing Press The letters at the right of Loops, in the same line, are merely any letters that the compositor has set up at random by tapping the linotype keys to fill out the line. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories This type was set up by Chinese compositors. Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail And where it obtains, as, for instance, in the case of ordinary type-setters, resort is had to payment by the day for compositors engaged on mathematical treatises, fac-similes, inscriptions etc. Principles Of Political Economy The avis is a mere medley of fragments: I could not ask a compositor to set it up! Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc "Of course the compositors have to be very sure before the forms go to the stereotype casting room that there are no mistakes in them, I suppose," Paul ventured thoughtfully. Paul and the Printing Press The compositor in this case was at machine number 7, and the slug name given the story was Folo Loops: that is, it was a follow story, to come after the one slugged Loops. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories IN preparing a work for the press, the author, the compositor, and the proof-reader are the three factors that enter into its construction. The Importance of the Proof-reader A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson When they come in the editor looks at them and sends them up to the chief compositor. Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young That compositor was a Cape Cod man,—I would wager a dinner upon it. The Foot-path Way In his manuscripts there were so many erasures, and such frequent interlineations that a special staff of compositors was used for his work, but this was not on account of any illegibility in his handwriting. My Father as I Recall Him The proof of the compositor's take looks something like the matter at the top of the next page. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories I think the only person who suffered still more must have been the compositor. Spare Hours The "compositors," up in the top rooms where the lights are shining, stand before large wooden trays or "cases," each of which is divided into a number of small squares, like boxes without lids. Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young By an error of the compositor, the following names were omitted in the list published in our last paper, of volunteers who so greatly contributed to the glorious defence and preservation of Stonington, viz.:— The Defence of Stonington (Connecticut) Against a British Squadron, August 9th to 12th, 1814 The word "finessed" in my last, your compositor has transformed into finified. Nuts for Future Historians to Crack Keimer, though he understood a little of the business, was merely a compositor, and wholly incapable of working at press. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Your compositor must feel aggrieved by the rejection of these clearly written documents, without erasures, and on one side only. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II When that paper is removed it is a printed page, with the same words upon it that the compositor read upon the letter or written page sent in a little while ago. Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young A reporter tried to write that "the jury disagreed and were discharged," but the compositor set it up "the jury disappeared and were disgraced." Cupology How to Be Entertaining "I began life as a compositor, and I have not forgotten my trade," he said. Grey Town An Australian Story The copyreader corrects it and writes the headlines or heads; then he sends it to the composing room to be set in type by the compositor. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing This is intentional; had it been a compositor's reading of bad handwriting, these would not have been the only mistakes; to say nothing of the corrector of the press. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II When a special telegram, in the line of criminal intelligence, comes to one of these papers, I am in possession of its contents before it has reached the compositor's hands. The Diamond Coterie For him the steamer ploughs Atlantic surges; and for him, when she gains her port, two hundred miles of wire are put into galvanic tremor, bidding him prepare his covers, and rally his compositors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 I have sometimes thought that the word “courtiers” was a misprint for “countenances,” arising from an anticipation, by foreglance of the compositor's eye, of the word “courtier” a few lines below. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Runs and Assignments.—Between the news tip and the finished copy for the compositor there is a vast amount of news gathering, which falls to the lot of the reporter. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing And both the compositor and reader would have guessed, from the first line being translated into "one is not one," that it must have been "one's none," not "one's nine." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Bradford had not been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Then they watched the compositor setting type in the metal "stick" with the sliding end. The Adventures of Bobby Orde The compositor read the first syllable court, and—his eye at the same time catching the word “courtier” lower down—he completed the word without reconsulting the copy. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Given a good stolid compositor with no thought beyond doing his duty with the manuscript as it reached him, you have what Mr. Dobell has recovered— an immortal poem printed wrong-end-foremost page by page. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Major Gilbert was a compositor and also a dancing-master. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Moderation in the use of italics is so important that in many cases the compositor is justified in ignoring markings for italic in his copy where they are too profuse. The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters Sometimes I set up a few lines myself, and dictate at the same time to one or two of my compositors. The History of Tasmania, Volume I But I must consider the more handicapped members of the staff: compositors, layoutmen and proofreaders; without my advantages and broadmindedness they might be so startled by this innovation as to have their usefulness permanently crippled. Greener Than You Think He said he could not make out how ever the compositor could keep the alphabetical order of each box in his memory. The History of "Punch" It may be necessary to return the proofs again to the compositors for correction, and even a third time. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing They will then form groups comprising authors, compositors, printers, engravers, draughtsmen, all pursuing a common aim—the propagation of ideas that are dear to them. The Conquest of Bread But all the people are worn out—writers and compositors. Edmond Dantès We infer that the compositor was among them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 By judicious spacing the compositor managed to fill up folio 135 with a poem by Gaguin, the colophon and two panegyrics by Faustus Andrelinus and another humanist. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation If many such occur, the proof is again passed to the compositor for further correction and the taking of fresh proofs. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing If the compositor suffers from lead-poisoning, and if the child who sees to the machine dies of anæmia, are there not other poor wretches to replace them? The Conquest of Bread He is brother to author, paper-maker, compositor, publisher, and binder, understanding all their hopes, doubts, and fears, in sympathy with all the thoughts that gave his volumes their shape, size, and appearance. The Book-Hunter at Home When they agreed, perfection was at hand, and the 'copy' went forward to the compositors, but not till then. The Booklover and His Books Meanwhile, the staffs of all publications, from editors to compositors, have felt the weight of conscription—sacrifices they enthusiastically make for the common cause. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 This long-suffering individual lives in a chronic state of warfare with the compositors on the one hand and the author on the other. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing In the printing trade the craftsman is either a compositor a proof-reader, a make-up man, a pressman or a binder. Dollars and Sense In the great room he entered there were rows on rows of compositors' frames, all dimly illuminated by a single gas-jet, and the air was thick with fog. Despair's Last Journey The compositor is pronounced "a little person of great consequence." The Booklover and His Books Without that hoard, or without a breach of the law, my imaginary compositor would surely have died. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography Much has been written about printers' errors and the mistakes of "the intelligent compositor." The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing I went under the name of "David Vane, compositor," as of course, I knew something about the printing trade. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile From a hook over the compositor's "case," Fred reached down a sheaf of the Daily Weather Reports, and laid those for the last three days on the table in front of Anton. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Therefore, he gave his copies to the compositors without rereading them. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 When I arrived there the country edition of the News was already on the machine and the compositors were leaving work. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography The great newspapers and magazines have what they call a "style sheet" for the guidance of their compositors and proof-readers and insist on its being faithfully followed. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Some literary-minded compositor in my father's employ had placed the book in a rack of type-cases, and had apparently forgotten it. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile It may surely be believed that, between the compositors who put the types together and the correctors of the press, the printing of the Bible has generally been executed with more than average care. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author In 1826 he commenced his apprenticeship as a compositor, under the care of Mr. Dugan, in the city of Belfast, Ireland, where he continued until the expiration of the time of his indentures. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. By dint of judiciously oiling the tongue of a chatty compositor, he had learned that the unique copy was contributed by Mr. H. T. Sheard. The Sins of Séverac Bablon The proofs are then returned to the compositors for correction, each man correcting the portion he set up. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing It bore on many pages the stamp of some Young Men's Christian Association in a Northern town, and my literary-minded compositor seems to have looted it. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Here he had become a compositor in the office of a daily newspaper, and, happening to be introduced to the Misses Dunning, soon became a favourite with them, and a constant visitor at their house. The Red Eric This puzzled the compositor, who gave the nearest common word without regard to the sense. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Remember that you are writing for the compositor. Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School But why should the compositor bear the expense of correction—or the master-printer for that matter—when the copy was clearly wrong in the first instance? The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing And, as I am a living sinner, some criminal compositor stuck in an "n" for a "v," and made the stern lesson appear to exist in the fact that "these lines" were counted. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Several hours of miscellaneous consultative pottering had passed between Darius and his compositors round and about the new printing machine, which was once more plumb and ready for action. Clayhanger I have varied experience as a compositor and printer. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 The compositor, in his haste, read an n for the r in the word parts, and the sentence, thus changed, radically in its significance, duly appeared in the morning paper. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers In the building of a book he does not come into contact with author, artist, compositor, printer, or publisher. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing I used to wake up at night to think of things to say to that compositor if ever I should meet him, and to the printer's reader who passed his abominable blunder. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile He seemed to imply a prophecy that, because Edwin had saved the printing office from destruction two days previously, he would necessarily prove to be a born compositor. Clayhanger For instance, young Gedge was there no longer as a common compositor. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life The devilish compositor so tangled the words that, when the poem was published, this line read: "See the pale martyr with his shirt on fire." Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers The portion thus given each compositor is called a "take," and its length is determined by circumstances. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing The initiated will understand that the ‘insinuations’ of which the poetess complained, were simply the names of the different compositors, indicating the lines at which they severally began to place her effusions in type! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 But as he understood, tears came into Edwin’s eyes, and he thrilled at the swift and dramatic revelation of the compositor’s feeling for his employer. Clayhanger The compositors one by one were flitting home, and the engine was dropping asleep. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life He then entered the office of the Golden Era as a compositor, but soon began to write articles for the paper. Short Stories of Various Types As to punctuation, every compositor thinks he knows better than proof-reader and author combined and follows his own sweet will. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Strictly speaking, yes, but authors generally neglect punctuation, copy is not usually carefully edited before going to the compositor, and proofreader’s corrections are expensive. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically The press grew fertile with pamphlets; and it was noticed that all the printers and compositors went for Luther. Short Studies on Great Subjects Reginald yawned, and walked off to watch a compositor picking up type out of a case. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life The latter is so true, in fact, that our compositor who set the type for the book, said that he had never before seen anything like the diction and spelling. The Blunders of a Bashful Man The compositors who are to set the type are selected according to the difficulty of the matter in hand, and each one is given a few pages of the "copy," or manuscript. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing It is therefore important that the compositor should be intelligent about punctuation, whether he works in a large or a small office. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically In the huge Planet building, which dominated Broadway, employés, compositors, reporters, advertisers, surged to and fro. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels “No, thanks; I’d be very glad, but I promised to have dinner with my brother—he’s a compositor here.” Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life Thomas Martyn, a compositor of The Times, invented some further modifications, and was aided by the younger Walter. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy As every error on the first proof must be corrected by the compositor at his own expense, here arises the cause of war mentioned in our opening paragraph. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing This is one of the tasks which subject the compositor to the test of intelligence. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically To enable a compositor to space evenly and to "justify" properly, these spaces are cast to various thicknesses. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) But there was no sign of workmen anywhere, and, to his disgust, he ascertained from a passing boy that the compositors’ dinner-hour did not begin till he was due back at his work. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life Thus, by taking the last word of one sentence and making it the first word of another, the intelligent compositor belittles a night fight for which I thought my command deserved no inconsiderable credit. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer Thence the proof passes back again to the compositor, who corrects the type in accordance with the proof-reader's markings. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing If the copy is hard to read, the compositor will set but few pages. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically The compositor holds in his hand a composing-stick, into which he places the type letter by letter, adding the spaces where necessary. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) At seven o’clock every one left except a sub-editor and one of the clerks, and one or two compositors, to see after the eight o’clock and any possible later edition. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life Explaining that hundreds of young women, now stitching at starvation wages, were ready and eager to learn the trade, she added, "Give us the means and we will soon give you competent women compositors." Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian And here a sentence has been left out which he wrote on the back of his copy and has been skipped by compositor, copy-holder, proof-reader, and reviser alike! The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing The compositor may find himself helped, or restricted, by the established style of the office, or he may at times be held to strict following of copy. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically No compositor, or scribe either, could possibly be misled by any sound from the "reader" into such a mistake as that! Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. I am respectable and fairly intelligent, and am at present employed as compositor in the Rocket newspaper-office. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life The Revolution encouraged this union by printing notices of its meetings and urging all women compositors to join. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian But James, perhaps influenced by the representations of his 'compositors,' whom the new invention threatened with the loss of work, instead of helping, did his utmost to ruin the undertaking and its inventor. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 In such cases the compositor should punctuate as he goes along. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically As Harrison was editor, reporter, foreman of the composing room, and also the compositor, pressman, etc., the only opening for Alfred was in the business department. Watch Yourself Go By How is the compositor guided in these cases? Capitals A Primer of Information about Capitalization with some Practical Typographic Hints as to the Use of Capitals The compositor, in the editor's absence, converted it into rectus in culina, which although not very bad Latin, altered the sense very materially, giving the reverend gentleman a good standing in the kitchen. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Allan was his own compositor, and gave much time to his hobby; but his printer appears to have been a dissolute and dirty workman, who caused him much annoyance and trouble. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 No set of rules could be devised which would work automatically or relieve the compositor from the necessity of thinking. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically One Whitemash, a compositor I had known in London, an excellent workman, now came to me, and work'd with me constantly and diligently; and I took an apprentice, the son of Aquilla Rose. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Various religious and polemical works also emanate at different times from the press, all of them neatly and well printed, nay, highly creditable to the Indian compositors who execute them. Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 He mastered his business, becoming an expert compositor. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail The foundry employed thirty hands, and the compositors numbered one hundred and sixty. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Why is it necessary for a compositor to understand punctuation? Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically Only one more attempt at correction was made, when the compositor had its typography so changed that it read Tom Gregory, the Pope. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II But here he is to a certainty, in spite of the rat: and in a different form of letters the compositor will show him, up to you as—vellem et Orp. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg It was his task to find the printers, buy the paper, and hire the qualified compositors for setting the type. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The work of the compositors, setting up different kinds of type, the proof-reading, the editorial work, the reporters, all come in for a share of attention. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Blots like mashed spiders, or crushed huckleberries, occasionally intervene, but the old veteran dashes them with sand, leaving a swearing compositor to scratch off the soil, and dig out the words underneath. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Careful and exact experiments have shown the influence of moderate doses of alcohol in lessening the amount of work performed by printing compositors. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science The doors opened, and there appeared at one door the compositors and pressmen; at the other, Madame Hormuth with her children. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia Now I do flatter myself upon so writing, that compositors can have no excuse for blunders, though I am well aware that to be esteemed a Genious, one’s chirography should very nearly approach unintelligibility. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 It was printed by the associated compositors in the office of M.A. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. It is possibly a compositor's query which the author missed when correcting the proofs. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Mere learning is only a compiler, and does with the pen what the compositor does with the type: each sets up a book with the hand. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 He had seated himself shading his eyes from the light with his hand, an old trick of his compositor days, and still looked at her in the same friendly way. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The only way of expediting the matter would have been to have recomposed the paper, involving, however, double labor to the compositors, and a double chance of error. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 Happy would the compositors for the press be if they had always so legible a manuscript to work from. Memoir of Jane Austen It obviously cannot be due to the manual labour of the compositors, for this, both in kind and quantity, is in each case the same. A Critical Examination of Socialism In this case, the evidence for the statement lay in the high wage-rate figures for three employments in particular—those of engine-drivers, compositors, and builders’ labourers: three industries incapable of protection by tariffs. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 They took a pride in one another as old compositors who had risen in the world; and Smith had no doubt heard of, and perhaps from, the Franklins in some of Strahan's previous letters. Life of Adam Smith If copy is clear and spelled according to any authority, it is the compositor's duty to follow it. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation I purchased a small press and type for the purpose of printing it in my own house, that no one but myself and the compositor might see it. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II It is due to the special directions under which the labour of the compositors is performed. A Critical Examination of Socialism The International Typographical Union course for compositors and compositors' apprentices is undoubtedly the best yet devised for giving supplementary training in hand composition. Wage Earning and Education The letters, two W's, were so skilfully entwined, that even a compositor—and compositors are people who can read almost anything—would have been puzzled to decipher it. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour This procedure will clear the compositor of all blame. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation The customary drink money was demanded of him, first by the pressmen with whom he was associated, and afterwards by the compositors. Four American Leaders This, he goes on to argue, will, despite all my objections, be found to depend on ordinary manual labour, of which the labour of the hands of the compositors is that which concerns us most. A Critical Examination of Socialism In a junior high school of 1,000 pupils, boys and girls, the number of boys who are likely to become compositors is about five. Wage Earning and Education It seemed to him strange that the same compositors who set up these papers should set up the Pilgrim. Mike Fletcher A Novel First Steps in Job Composition By Camille DeVéze Suggestions for the apprentice compositor in getting his first jobs, especially about the important little things which go to make good display in typography. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation He was a pressman as well as a compositor. Four American Leaders Now, it is clear that the state could not bind itself to put presses and compositors at the service of every one of its citizens who was anxious to see himself in print. A Critical Examination of Socialism In the establishments visited by the Survey Staff there were approximately 15 apprentices to each 100 hand and machine compositors. Wage Earning and Education Two hours passed, and he still sat watching the red beard of a compositor, and the crimson volutes of an ear. Mike Fletcher A Novel He will probably know nothing about the rules by which the compositor gains his results. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation His partner "was, however, no compositor, a poor pressman, and seldom sober." Four American Leaders I should attribute this innovation to a careless compositor, who tried to memorize too large a bit of text, rather than to an emending editor. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York The number of deaths from consumption among compositors is more than double that in most outdoor occupations. Wage Earning and Education From the glass closet where they waited for the "pages," they could see the compositors bending over the forms. Mike Fletcher A Novel The compositor needs to know the rules, but to remember always that they are only means by which to secure results. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation When the Crescent waned and disappeared from the journalistic sky, he returned to Georgia and became editor, compositor, pressman, mailing clerk, and entire force on the Forsyth Advertiser. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie When he was earning 36s. a week as a compositor, they were saving up to buy a home. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes The apprenticeship system has held its own in the compositor's trade better than in most industrial occupations. Wage Earning and Education Then the sheet was handed to the first of a long line of compositors, who were standing in front of the desk of the "copy-cutter," as he is called. Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire Mr. Sims was the compositor, and an Englishman; he put me through tenderly. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned "Ah, Sir, if you would only favour us by singing the air, to which these words belong, you would infinitely oblige us all" ... said a shrewd and intelligent-looking compositor. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One He labored early and late at the work that was before him—editor, compositor and pressman—often beset with discouragements, always feebly supported in his efforts, but still hopeful and plucky. A Sketch of the History of Oneonta Nearly all the workers in this department of the industry are hand or machine compositors. Wage Earning and Education There it was taken from the metal carrier that dropped from the tube on the desk of the man in charge of distributing the various pieces of copy to the compositors. Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire I found the editor and his compositor labouring over the next edition of the paper. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned M. Joubert told me that the compositor or workman received 20 francs for setting up 36 pages, and that the paper was 12 francs per ream. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thus, often we read aloud and are unconscious of what we have read, precisely as the compositor habitually sets up pages of manuscript without the faintest idea of what it is all about. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Today the hand compositor, except in very small shops, works only on jobs requiring special type and special arrangement, such as advertisements, title covers of books, letter heads, and so on. Wage Earning and Education The compositor fairly ran to his type-setting machine and began to operate the keys, which were arranged like those on a very large typewriter. Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire The two little spheres, each containing a triplet, are like fill-up paragraphs to a compositor—they seem to be kept standing and popped in where wanted. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements There were then engaged in the composing-room a foreman and eight compositors, one of whom, George G. Bailey, subsequently became foreman, and later one of the proprietors. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 There was a compositor near him, and he watched and learned without asking questions. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest In all the Departments: Engineers, assistant engineers, pressmen, and compositors. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term There are also keys called the "small capital," the "Italic," and the "Italic capital"; so that the machine contains all the characters known to the compositor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 He tells us that the compositors printed as he wrote, and that he had hard work to keep pace with them. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London Ten compositors were employed, and the weekly composition bill averaged one hundred and sixty dollars. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 How many sticks a day can he make compositors set up of what he thinks? Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy In each of these cases the error is evidently caused by the compositor having inverted the figure 6, which thus became 9. Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 Every one knows this process,—a painfully slow one in view of results, although individual compositors are sometimes wonderfully expert. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Besides, the foreman says it disturbs the compositors in the next room. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Twelve compositors were regularly employed this year, and the weekly composition bill was two hundred dollars. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 He had purchased a small press and type for the purpose of printing it at his own house, so that no one but himself and the compositor might see it. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official He never held a job long ... though he was a good compositor, he was always on the move from place to place.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The four things indispensable to a compositor are quickness of movement, good spelling, 308 correct punctuation and brains enough to take in the idea of the article to be set up. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Get the compositors all together, and make a rush at him. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Twenty-one compositors were regularly employed, and the average weekly composition bill was five hundred dollars. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 He was working in the office of the town paper as a tramp compositor a week ago. The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness Each page of the paper is locked up on a detached segment of the large cylinder, called by the compositors a "turtle," and this constitutes its bed and chase. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Eighty compositors--cross old dogs, most of them--are ending a long and weary day's toil. David Lockwin—The People's Idol When the condemnation of a book was cried through the streets, the compositors said, "Good, another edition!" Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The entire fourth floor is used as a composing-room, where stand "frames" for ninety-six compositors; the foreman and his assistants have each a private office, and a private room is assigned to the proofreaders. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 He was a teacher, was employed in government offices, worked in the gold mines, and learned to be a compositor in a printing office. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader As a compositor, he was not only neat and thorough, but was remarkably rapid as well. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made He soon mastered the compositor's art, became a remarkably rapid composer. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist But how could he transport to the banks of the Neva or the Spree his fifty skilled compositors, his crafty engravers on copper-plate, and all the host of his industrial army? Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Six compositors were employed then; now there are one hundred and forty-seven. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 The "Presse," indeed, brought out a half sheet, mainly taken up in returning thanks to two compositors "who, between two fires," had been "so considerate" as to set up the type. France in the Nineteenth Century But the compositor had only omitted the "n" from the last word of the sentence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 It cut a very majestic figure in his columns, till some irritable compositor docked it of its capital and compelled it to march with the rank and file of vulgar adjectives. The Divine Fire Fifty compositors were busily setting up a book which the ordinance of the government had decisively forbidden under heavy penalties. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) He wrote "understate," but the wretched compositor undid him. Whistler Stories But if he cuffed his apprentice Benjamin when the compositor blundered, and when he didn't, it was his legal right; and the master who did not occasionally kick his apprentices was considered derelict to duty. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen All the people going through Vandewater Street appear to be compositors. Walking-Stick Papers It is clearly an error of a most ignorant or careless compositor, who has transposed the nouns. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 On the other hand, there are classes of people to whom a high degree of spelling accuracy covering a fairly wide vocabulary is an indispensable vocational necessity: clerks, copyists, stenographers, correspondents, compositors, proof-readers, etc. What the Schools Teach and Might Teach Each type is marked upon one side by slight nicks, by sight and touch of which the compositor is guided in rapidly placing them right side up in the line. Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 His apprentice, or "devil," had left him, because the devil did not like to be cuffed whenever the compositor shuffled his fonts. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Fine, strapping, romantic people, compositors, smeared with ink! Walking-Stick Papers The type and press were once the property of the Franciscan friars, and used by them; and in the absence of the English w, the compositors on The Californian doubled the Spanish v. In the Footprints of the Padres While this chapter was in the hands of the compositors, the hunting cat and gray rabbit shown in the accompanying illustration were brought in by a keeper. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation "There you are!" said he to me, as another compositor near us attached a piece of tissue paper to his machine. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories Strange to say, the compositors did not complain of this eye-straining copy, which attracted them by its compactness and stretched out to nearly half a column in the "strings" by which their pay was measured. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 One of his compositors had written it, he said. The Hilltop Boys on the River He could not earn much as a compositor, but his wants were simple and he could earn something. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment The salary of an assistant editor at that time was something between the wages of a compositor and those of an office-boy. Famous Americans of Recent Times As the characters representing these sounds are not to be found in the "case" of an English compositor, we cannot enter into their Oriental origin. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 Seeing that his young compositor was meeting with success and appreciation abroad, Mr. Anderson called upon him more frequently to write paragraphs for the "Gazette." Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success At a quarter to twelve, Gluck explained that a column of matter already set up had been "pied" by a careless compositor. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Nietzsche has so shocked and confused the English printer that when the author writes himself an 'immoralist' the compositor has made him call himself an 'immortalist.' Recent Tendencies in Ethics About one o'clock, having provided abundant copy for the compositors, he sallied forth into Wall Street, picking up material for his stock-tables and subjects for paragraphs. Famous Americans of Recent Times I should have liked nothing better than to become a turner or a compositor. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes You do nearly as much as I, as a compositor. Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success Soon after Gluck and his one compositor carried out the forms to be machined. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People We find him gaining secret information as to the plans of the Ultramontane party in Baden from a compositor at Freiburg who was in his pay. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire A compositor was, after all, a mere workman, and Keith felt instinctively that his mother looked with kindly contempt at the more primitive ways of the adjoining household. The Soul of a Child But the sheets were all there,—you always number them so clearly, and 'handsome August,' the compositor, promised he wouldn't tell on me. The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann "I am one of the compositors on that paper." Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success Ford, who had served his apprenticeship as a compositor in the office of William Lloyd Garrison at Boston, founded the Irish World in 1870. The Glories of Ireland "Plenty doing?" he asked the compositor who appeared. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 Jonas' father was a compositor--a tall, lank, hollow-eyed man with a bad cough. The Soul of a Child His first opportunity arose when he found the Brahmin, who was in the book-binding and compositor department, working one day in the same gardening-gang with himself. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Harry was accustomed to do his work as compositor in the forenoon and the early part of the afternoon. Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success Hand compositors would have to learn to set type by machinery or go down in the struggle for existence. The Wrong Twin Can Mr. White find an example of dod for doth, where the word could not be doubtful to the compositor? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 After serving an apprenticeship to a stationer, he entered a printing office as compositor and corrector of the press. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction I think that Herald was the only place which recruited an assortment of a government servant, wannabe-advocate and a shoe-shop vendor as compositors. Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press Of course all this work added to his labors as compositor; and his occasional sketches for Boston papers absorbed a large share of his time. Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success I was employed in the office as compositor and foreman and at the expiration of the first month had to take the "plant, fixtures and good will," for my pay. Reminiscences of a Pioneer In that is related how about this time was formed a women printers' union, styled "Women's Typographical No. 1," through the exertions of a number of women compositors with Augusta Lewis at their head. The Trade Union Woman As he turned it out, Billy rushed it in batches to the compositors, and when finally it all came back in strips of type, it was hurried down to the idlers in the basement. The Nine-Tenths This running feud was between compositors and sub-editors on the Goa desk. Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press During all this time he remained in charge of the Centreville "Gazette," but of course had long relinquished the task of a compositor into his brother's hands. Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success These machines require a separate mechanism that distributes each type in its proper place after use, or else a separate compositor must be employed to do this by hand. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers As early as 1856 the Boston Typographical Union seriously considered discharging any member found working with female compositors. The Trade Union Woman The word had been passed around by Ellis, and the whole office force, including reporters, compositors, and pressmen, came in to congratulate the major and smoke at his expense. The Marrow of Tradition The compositors used to concentrate on composing advertisement, after reporting to work regularly irregular, while we sub-editors breathed down on their necks to type our stories which were our life-line to fill the page. Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press This was the other compositor, a man of thirty, whose case was not far distant from Clapp's. Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success Then when the compositor's "stick" is full, or two and a half inches have been set, the type has to be taken out and placed in a long channel, or "galley." Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers He went to the office of the local newspaper, and found the result he wanted in the type-cases of the compositors. Heroes of the Telegraph A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. The Devil's Dictionary He had next tried Thomas Martyn, an ingenious young compositor, who had a scheme for a self-acting machine for working the printing press. Men of Invention and Industry I'm willing to work a little longer, and Harry here is a pretty quick compositor now. Risen from the Ranks Harry Walton's Success The Lanston machine sets up tables of figures, poetry, and all those difficult pieces of composition that so try the patience of the hand compositor. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers I suppose that the compositor was left to himself, as usual. The Lucasta Poems For some time I found it necessary to select every character with my own fingers, and to deliver it to the compositor, and by so doing I learnt myself to compose. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society They contrived to have two of the men employed by Walter as compositors apprehended as deserters from the Royal Navy. Men of Invention and Industry In the whole office there was apparently no compositor or office-boy to point out that we speak of lies being nailed to the counter, and not to the mast. Heretics This machine is used much in newspaper offices, where the cleverness of the compositor has to be depended upon and there is little or no time for corrections. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers I have seen a female compositor—and she was one of the best—who did not know how to read, and was acquainted only with the forms of the letters. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Moreover the compositors say that they are unaccustomed to compose in an unknown tongue from such scribbled and illegible copy, and they will scarcely assist me to compose. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society The express arrived at 10 A.M., after the day's impression of the paper had been published, and the editors and compositors had left the office. Men of Invention and Industry He arrived late, to find the compositors already fretting for copy. Blix A perfect typesetting machine should take the place of the hand compositor, setting the type letter by letter automatically in proper order at a maximum speed and with a minimum chance of error. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Now, if the compositor allows his case to become too full, the topmost letters in each box will certainly slide down into the box below, and occasionally, though rarely, into one of the side boxes. Literary Blunders I had now to teach the compositors the Mandchou alphabet, and to distinguish one character from another. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society He was also averse to doing anything to injure the compositors, having once been a member of the craft. Men of Invention and Industry When business slackens, compositors and pressmen divide up their labor; all monopolists are detested as no better than robbers or traitors. What is Property? Most of it was in blank, but the solitary compositor who did the thing had amused himself by making a grotesque scheme of advertisement stereo on the back page. The War of the Worlds It is taken for granted that the compositor is not likely to put his hand into the wrong box, so that if a wrong letter is used, it must have fallen out of its place. Literary Blunders After much consultation with the compositor, I have come to the following result concerning the Mandchou business about which you consulted me. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society He first translated the document; then, assisted by one compositor, he took his place at the type-case, and set it up. Men of Invention and Industry Arage and Garnier-Pages of having aristocratic manners, and I picture to myself our great journalists, in their columns so friendly to the people, administering rough kicks to the compositors in their printing offices. What is Property? Watts, after some weeks, desiring to have me in the composing-room, I left the pressmen; a new bien venu or sum for drink, being five shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin An important class of misprints owes its origin to this misplacement; but, as noticed by Mr. Blades, there are other classes, such as misspellings caused by the compositor's ignorance or misunderstanding. Literary Blunders He had been a compositor in a printing works, before founding the Globe. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings The compositors and the pressmen purposely battered the letters in the absence of their employers. Men of Invention and Industry Becoming, soon after, a compositor, he made a tour of France in this capacity. What is Property? One Whitemash, a compositor I had known in London, an excellent workman, now came to me, and work'd with me constantly and diligently; and I took an apprentice, the son of Aquila Rose. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin He was answered that such clear writing was always given to the boys, as experienced compositors could not be spared for it. Literary Blunders It still bears in pencil the names of the different compositors who set up the type. De Libris: Prose and Verse In the course of a few years, the original humble establishment of the Sussex compositor, beginning with one press and one assistant, grew up to be one of the largest printing-offices in the world. Men of Invention and Industry He hired a compositor from Rouen, a young man named Parker, who set type all night long and helped him pursue advertisements all day. The Gentleman from Indiana The compositors declare that it is your chef-d'oeuvre. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings Such a misprint is as bad as the blunder of the French compositor, who, having to set up a passage referring to Captain Cook, turned de Cook into de 600 kilos. Literary Blunders In October, 1846, General Stager changed his location from the compositor's case to the telegraph operator's desk, commencing work as an operator in Philadelphia. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men He possessed the power of supplying his compositors with a stream of new type at the rate of about 50,000 pieces a day. Men of Invention and Industry Now I propose to read the typewritten sheets as they come from the machine, correct them for obvious clerical errors, and send them right away to the compositors. Jennie Baxter, Journalist Posterity will talk of the compositors, and our descendants will regret that they do not know the names of the apprentices. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings This one compositor set up throughout his turn as Indian goat. Literary Blunders After this he was foreman and compositor in the office of a monthly publication, called the Farmers' Journal, where he continued to devote his spare time to reading and study. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Mr. Walter next tried Thomas Martyn, an ingenious young compositor, who had a scheme for a self-acting machine for working the printing press. Men of Invention and Industry And do those infernal compositors and proof-readers misprint your unfortunate productions as vilely as ever? P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") The compositors strike their breasts, the printing-presses groan, the foremen tear their hair, their apprentices lose their heads. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings Errors of the Eye.—The eye often misleads the hand of the compositor, especially if he be at work upon a crabbed manuscript or worn-out reprint. Literary Blunders From hurried scribbler to pale compositor, and behold, the news is bawled all over London! The Slave of the Lamp Authors and compositors last century troubled themselves little about French words. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 The explanation is a simple one: two sets of compositors were generally at work, and two volumes were passing through the press simultaneously. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 There, seated anywhere—on the corner of a table, at a compositor's frame, or before a foreman's bureau—he became completely absorbed in the colossal labour of reading and correcting his proofs. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings The bygone joke concerning whiskers and the wind was then current, and a score of compositors took up the whistle, so that all varieties of breeze were soon being simulated simultaneously. Tales from Bohemia "And time too—he's had his turn," mutters the second compositor as he thinks of the extra five shillings a week. The Slave of the Lamp Fond of the theatre, also, in New York, went whenever I could—sometimes witnessing fine performances. 1836-7, work'd as compositor in printing offices in New York city. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy |
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