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Title: Type Cases and Composing-room furniture

Author: A. A. Stewart

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Language: English

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TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES--PART I, No. 3.

TYPE CASES AND
COMPOSING-ROOM
FURNITURE

A PRIMER OF INFORMATION ABOUT
TYPE CASES, WORK STANDS, CABINETS,
CASE RACKS, GALLEY RACKS,
STANDING GALLEYS, &c.

COMPILED BY

A. A. STEWART

PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA

1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918
UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA
CHICAGO, ILL.

Composition and Electrotypes contributed by
The Blanchard Press
New York

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTORY 5

EARLY TYPE CASES 9

SIZES OF TYPE CASES 11

STRUCTURE OF TYPE CASES 12

CASES FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES 14

COMPOSITOR'S WORK STANDS 16

CASE STANDS AND RACKS 18

THE MODERN TYPE CABINET 20

IRON CASE BRACKETS 22

WOOD RUNS AND STEEL RUNS 24

EXTENSION FRONTS AND BACKS 25

FURNITURE RACKS 26

SPECIAL CABINETS 28

REVIEW QUESTIONS 30

GLOSSARY 32

INTRODUCTORY

The essential articles of furniture in a modern composing room may be
classified broadly, omitting obvious details for the present, under the
following heads:

1. CASES for type f