Harry and Lucy Concluded (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... 103 printing-press. "Mamma, 1 am sorry that you could not go with us to see the printing-press to day, for it was very entertaining. And look," said Lucy, "I am not covered with printer's ink, as you said I should be." "If you did not take care, my, dear, I said. Did not I?" "Yes, mamma; but I did take care, you see, for I have not a single spot, and yet I saw everything perfectly. Mamma, you have seen printing so often, I suppose, that it would be tiresome to describe it to you. And I shall only tell you, that it was done almost exactly as is explained in our 'Book of Trades, ' in the chapter of The Printer. Do you remember my reading it to you, mamma? and the picture of the letter-press printer? And at the end it was said, that, after reading this, young people should endeavour to go through a printing-office. I asked you directly, mamma, to take me to see one, and you said that you could not then, but that you would some time or other; and now the some time or other, which I thought never would arrive, has come to-day. I saw the letters, or the types, all in their square divisions in their cases, which lay sloping within reach of the compositor, who, with his composing stick in his hand, picked out the letters, and placed them in the form. Then another man inked their faces, with a black puff-ball, and afterwards the wet paper was pressed down on them. I knew and understood almost everything he was going to do, mamma, from recollecting the description. This was very pleasant. There was one thing, though, which I had mistaken; when I took up one of the types, I saw that the letter stands out from the face of the metal, it projects: now I had always fancied that the letters were hollowed out, cut into the types, as the letters for...