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Letterpress  n.  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. "Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates."






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"Letterpress" Quotes from Famous Books



... Afterwards the book had irresistible charms for him, from the first page whereon his old friend, Mr. Bell Scott, has vigorously etched Severn's drawing of the once redundant locks of rich hair, dank and matted over the forehead cold with the death-dew, down to the last line of the letterpress. He thought Mr. Forman's work admirably done, and as for the letters themselves, he believed they placed Keats indisputably among the highest masters of English epistolary style. He considered that all Keats's ...
— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine

... page the following words:—'Merry Thoughts for Merry Men; or Mother Midnight's Miscellany for the Small Hours;' and turning over the leaves, he was disgusted with profligate tales, and more profligate songs, ornamented with figures corresponding in infamy with the letterpress. ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... year, we have a curious woodcut representing a fly, a spider, a bird, a sportsman, a tiger, and a well. Underneath this strange medley is a legend couched in the following terms:—"Predestination in all things!" The letterpress accompanying the picture explains that the spider had just secured a fat fly, and was on the point of making a meal of him, when he was espied by a hungry bird which swooped down on both. As the bird was making off to its nest ...
— Chinese Sketches • Herbert A. Giles



Words linked to "Letterpress" :   printing, printing process, relief printing



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