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Jacobi's’s Printers' Vocabulary · B

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B

Is the first signature of the printer’s alphabet (A being used for the preliminary matter, usually done last).

1 Back boxes.
2 Back mark.
3 Back of a type.
4 Back pages.
5 Back stay.
6 Back-up.
7 Backing metal.
8 Backs.
9 Backside of the forme.
10 Bad colour.
11 Bad copy.
12 Bad lay.
13 Bad matter.
14 Bad register.
15 Bag cap.
16 Baked.
17 Balaam.
18 Balaam box.
19 Ball knife.

1 Ball leathers.
2 Ball linings.
3 Ball nails.
4 Ball necks.
5 Ball racks.
6 Ball stocks.
7 Balls.
8 Band.
9 Bank.
10 Bank paper.
11 Bar.
12 Barge.
13 Barged case.
14 Bastard founts.
15 Bastard title.
16 Batter.
17 Beam engine.
18 Beano.
19 Beard of a letter.
20 Bearer.

1 Beat.
2 Beat fat.
3 Beat lean.
4 Beater.
5 Bed.
6 Bed of the frame.
7 Begin a fresh par.
8 Begin even.
9 Bellows.
10 Belly of a type.
11 Belts.
12 Benvenue.
13 Bevel wheel.
14 Bevelled edges.
15 Bevelled rules.
16 Bill.
17 Bill.
18 Bills in parliament.
19 Bind.
20 Binder.

1 Bindery.
2 Binding.
3 Bite.
4 Black and white.
5 Black letter.
6 Bklr.
7 Blacks.
8 Blank page.
9 Blanks.
10 Blankets.
11 Bleed.
12 Blind blocked.
13 Blind P.
14 Block.
15 Block books.
16 Blocked.
17 Blocked-up.
18 Blotting paper.
19 Blow-off pipe.
20 Board racks.

1 Boards.
2 Bodkin.
3 Body.
4 Body of the work.
5 Boiler gauge.
6 Boiler tubes.
7 Bold.
8 Bolster.
9 Bolts.
10 Book founts.
11 Book-house.
12 Booking.
13 Booklets.
14 Book press.
15 Book quoins.
16 Books (Sizes Of).
17 Book-work.
18 Botanical signs.
19 Botch.
20 Botcher.

1 Bottle-arsed.
2 Bottle-necked.
3 Bottom boards.
4 Bottom line.
5 Bottom notes.
6 Bound.
7 Bourgeois.
8 Bowing a letter.
9 Bowra rule cutter.
10 Box in.
11 Boxes.
12 Boxwood shooting stick.
13 Brace pliers.
14 Braces.
15 Bracket.
16 Bracket.
17 Brake.
18 Branch out.
19 Brass circles.
20 Brass composing rules.

1 Brass curves.
2 Brass face.
3 Brass rules.
4 Brass rules (Varieties of).
5 Bray.
6 Brayer.
7 Brayer ink table.
8 Break.
9 Break.
10 Break of a letter.
11 Break up.
12 Break up into pars.
13 Bremner machines.
14 Brevier.
15 Brevier brass rule.
16 Brilliant.
17 Bring Up.
18 Bristol boards.
19 Broad.
20 Broad and narrow.

1 Broad quotations.
2 Broad thirds card.
3 Broadside.
4 Broadside composing stick.
5 Broadside chases.
6 Broken letter.
7 Broken matter.
8 Broken neck.
9 Bronze ink.
10 Bronze preparation.
11 Bronze printing.
12 Bronzing machine.
13 Brooks’ press.
14 Browns.
15 Brush out.
16 Bulk.
17 Bullet.
18 Bullock press.
19 Bullock’s heart.
20 Bundle.

1 Bur.
2 Burnished edges.
3 Business cards.
4 Button of tympan.
5 Button on.