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1. addressing machine in addressing, n. View full entry 1860
...a machine for printing addresses on envelopes, etc.; cf. addresser4, addressograph...
2. addressograph, n. View full entry 1894
...An addressing machine....
3. advance proofs in advance, n. and adj. View full entry 1855
...proofs of a printed work supplied prior to its publication....
4. advance sheets in advance, n. and adj. View full entry 1842
...parts of a printed work supplied prior to its publication....
5. agate, n. View full entry 1831
...Printing and Typogr. (N. Amer.). A size of type larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil (in Britain called ruby: see ruby7),...
6. Aldine, adj. and n. View full entry 1654
...Designating editions of Greek and Latin classics (including many first printed editions, or principes) issued at Venice by Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Manucci, 14501515), and his family (...
7. algraphy, n. View full entry 1897
...A printing process similar to lithography, in which aluminium plates are used instead of stones....
8. alkali blue in alkali, n. and adj. View full entry 1873
...any of various blue dyes which are applied or remain fast in alkaline conditions; spec. any of a series of sodium salts of phenylated rosaniline sulphonic acids, used as indicators...
9. Aller, n. View full entry 1940
...attrib., esp. in Aller process. Designating an offset printing process in which a copper-coated steel plate is used to transfer the image....
10. Aller, n. View full entry 1950
...the bimetallic printing plate used in the Aller process....
11. alley, n.1 View full entry 1871
...Printing. In a printing office: a space between two compositors' stands, or between two printing presses. Now disused....
12. alphabet, n. View full entry 1608
...A complete set of type for reproducing the letters of the alphabet. Now chiefly hist....
13. alphabet, n. View full entry 1658
...A system, design, or style of lettering; a font, typeface, or hand. Also: a book, sheet, or sample of this (cf. alphabet book(a)2)....
14. anastatic, adj. View full entry 1849
...Of the nature of revival; spec. applied to a printing process, in which facsimiles of writing, drawings, or letter-press are produced by a transfer process from zinc plates....
15. angle bar in angle, n.2 View full entry 1793
...a glazing bar at the point where two angled windowpanes meet, as in a polygonal or bow window (now rare);= angle iron(b);Printing a metal bar positioned...
16. angle bracket, n. View full entry 1890
...Typogr., etc. Either of the symbols < and >, principally used as a bracket (bracket5a). Cf. square bracketsquare3a....
17. antique, adj. and n. View full entry ?a1871
...Typogr. ‘A popular style of display type in which all the lines are of uniform thickness.’ Ringwalt Encycl. Print.1871....
18. appear, v. View full entry 1713
...To come before the public in the character of an author by his works....
19. arbitrary, adj. and n. View full entry 1829
...a character used to supplement the letters and accents which constitute an ordinary fount of type....
20. archetypist, n. View full entry 1881
...One who studies early typography....
