15 examples of letterpress in sentences

1844 "In the course of 1843 I had put in hand the engraving of the drawings of the Northumberland Telescope at Cambridge Observatory, and wrote the description for letterpress.

print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column.

They are far and away better than those which we usually get in books of this kind, and we do not know that we can bestow higher praise on them than to say that they are worthy of the letterpress which they illustrate.

Usually, every new leaf that had burst forth over night set itself in the gelatine of his mind like so many letterpress changes on a printed page to a proof-reader.

Many letters of this period, including a whole letterpress copy-book, are missing, many of the letters in other copy-books are quite illegible through the fading of the ink, and others have been torn out (by whom I do not know) and have entirely disappeared.

The above figure, with its accompanying letterpress, sufficiently explains the nature of the shoe.

Poor Cherry perspired over the editorial, and it bears the signs of labourthe letterpress otherwise is in the lighter strain: Taylor again the most important contributor, but now at rather too great a length; Nelson has supplied a very humorous trifle; the illustrations are quite delightful, the highwater mark of Wilson's ability.

Emblem books, in which engravings of a figurative design were accompanied with explanatory letterpress in verse, were a popular class of literature in the 17th century.

There is no handsomer book to be found, none more stately or imposing, than this magnificent folio of sixteen hundred pages, with its close, elaborate letterpress, its innumerable plates, and John Payne's fine frontispiece in compartments, with Theophrastus and Dioscorides facing one another, and the author below them, holding in his right hand the new-found treasure of the potato plant.

The plan on which the herbalist lays out his letterpress is methodical in the extreme.

Yet the letterpress is confident that in the north parts of Scotland there are trees on which grow white shells, which ripen, and then, opening, drop little living geese into the waves below.

Your photo in the illustrated papers, with appropriate letterpress" "You misunderstand me," interrupted Percival.

In the choice of his stock he will be aided at once by the clear descriptions, and by the portraits so beautifully executed by Landseer and Sheriff, by which the letterpress is accompanied.

The sixty-two illustrations which adorn the book are as honest as the letterpress.

ALTHOUGH The King's Classics are to be purchased for 1/6 net per volume, the series is unique in that (1) the letterpress, paper, and binding are unapproached by any similar series.

15 examples of  letterpress  in sentences