Joseph Moxon, Mechanic Exercises (1677 - 1683)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1677 1683
Author
Joseph Moxon Note: 12/10/2005
Lexicon title
Dictionary, alphabetically explaining the abstruse words and phrases that are used in typography
Book title
Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-works
Publication place
London
Publisher
Joseph Moxon
Transcription source
Edition by Herbert Davis and Harry Carter, second edn. (1962), revised against EEBO (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
printing
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
II: 367-94
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 21
number: 21
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 420
sample: Easie Work. See § 22. ¶ 4. And Great Letter and a Small Form the Press-man calls Easie Work.
number: 420
sample: Easie Work. See § 22. ¶ 4. And Great Letter and a Small Form the Press-man calls Easie Work.
Wing
M 3013, 3014
Catalog
Kennedy 6186
Other editions
1693: Wing M3015
Facsimiles
1896 reprint
Modern editions
Moxon, Joseph. Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683-84). Eds. Herbert Davis and Harry Carter. 2nd edn. n.p.: Oxford University Press, 1962. view record
