Melbourne Museum of Printing

Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of traditional printing, both the equipment and the knowledge.

UP THREE LEVELS
Museum Home Page

UP TWO LEVELS
Picture Gallery Index

UP ONE LEVEL,
Typesettings Gallery

NOTE: ALL TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE COPYRIGHT. All intending users please see our copyright notice page.

Enlarged Picture from the Museum's TYPESETTINGS GALLERY

WHEN YOU REACH THE BOTTOM OF THIS FILE, YOU CAN CLICK A LINK TO THE NEXT ENLARGEMENT, THEN THE NEXT, FINALLY BACK TO THE FIRST. YOU CAN RETURN FROM ANY ENLARGEMENT BACK TO THE MAIN DOCUMENT OR BACK TO THE GALLERY INDEX.

[picture in document]

This typesetting, untypically, is preserved in a chase, the frame into which type is placed and locked prior to printing.

Along the left-hand and right-hand edges of the lines of type are strips of wooden furniture. Further to the right are two mechanical quoins, another strip of furniture then the right-hand edge of the chase. At the top (actually the bottom of the document) can be seen a strip of lightweight metal furniture (shaped like a steel beam) and another quoin.

The lower edge of the chase, along the bottom of the picture has the rounded shape typical of chases for hand-fed platen presses of the late 19th century.

NEXT ENLARGEMENT:
Closer detail of this typesetting

Look up printers' measurements, machinery, materials in our Glossary of Typography. Find the glossary on the MUSEUM'S HOME PAGE (link at top of this page).

What's your Interest? GO DIRECT FROM HERE OR USE OUR INDEXES BELOW
Typography & Design__	D.T.P. or_ Word Proc	Book___ History__	Media &_ Editing__	Self____ Printing	Print___ Making_	Letterpress Freak____

Home___
Page____

Rejoin__
Tour__

Typo____
Glossary

Museum___
Collections

Return to Top