1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / I / In the metal. [p. 63]
Anything in type—the reverse of anything in print; for instance, to read a revise “in the metal” before taking a proof.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.