1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / R / Ruthven press. [p. 118]
This was a hand-press patented by Mr. Ruthven many years ago. Its principle consisted in the platen being brought over the forme, which was stationary, instead of the forme being run in.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.