1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / I / Imposing stone. [p. 61]
A perfectly smooth stone or iron surface on which formes are imposed and corrected, embedded in a strong wooden frame on legs, if stone; if iron, laid on the frame.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.
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