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Title: [[Copyist’s hand: part of a booklet, comprising]

Description: [Copyist’s hand: part of a booklet, comprising folios 341 to 357]

nd [wm 1798]

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§.3. Of Forgery in the way of Fabrication – Application of the Principles.

the purpose of occasional trial the art of the Copper-Plate Printer can never be

altogether strange:) to which may or may not be added, as an art distinct from

that of engraving letters, the art of engraving figures, in respect of the

emblematical figure, which presents itself at the beginning of the writing

contained in a Bank

Note.

[marginal heading:] 3 –

2 – on the proposed plan –

In the framing of a Bank Note upon the plan proposed, the concurrence of the

following distinct arts would be rendered necessary viz:

1. The art of the Engraver of Portraits on Copper.

2. The art of the Letter Founder

3. The art of the Engraver of the Puncheons for the making of the moulds or

matrixes for the letters. –

4. The art of the maker of the moulds or matrixes

5. The art of the Finisher of the Letters when cast. –

6. The art of the Printer who prints the Letter-press. –

7. The art of the Engraver, who Engraves that one of the two portraits which is

to be engraved on wood: a branch of engraving so distinct from that of the

engraver on Copper, that a perfect master of the one may be comparatively very

inexpert in the other. –

8. The art of the Draughtsman, who makes the Draughts preparatory to the

engraving of the two Portraits.(a)

2.

Note

(a) I will not take upon me to aver the impossibility of executing by

Letter-press, what shall be taken for Copper-plate: but it will be utterly

impossible to execute, by the common mode of engraving Copper-plate, what shall

be taken for Letter-press: at least, if the impression made with the types be

made deep, in all the copies, with this view. By engraving the whole body of

letter-press together, as it were upon one large Puncheon, the arts of the maker

of the matrixes, the founder, and the finisher, of

JB_003_316.xml

Title: [nd [wm 1798] To the Bank II]

Description: nd [wm 1798]

To the Bank

II Principles

3 Difficulty of concealment

2

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Copper plate itself.

3. The assortment of appropriate types in the finished state.

4. Do in the unfinished state.

5. The assortment of matrixes corresponding to those types.

6. The assortment of puncheons corresponding to the types and matrixes.

7. The drawing serving as a pattern to work from in engraving the other portrait

on the block of wood.

8. The engraved block of wood itself.

JB_003_345v.xml

Title: [nd [wm 1798] 8 Mr. Bentham]

Description: nd [wm 1798]

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Mr. Bentham’s Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money.

§.3. Sequel – Application of the above principles to the Particular Expedients

above indicated. –

[marginal heading:] 1.

1. Multiplication of the distinct Arts made requisite

1. First in regard to the multiplicity of distinct arts, the concurrence of which

has been rendered necessary, to the production of the genuine instrument, and

thence of the forbidden spurious one.

[marginal heading:] Applications of this principle. –

By distinct arts I understand, for the present purpose, such arts as in the

course of professional usage are not commonly exercised by one and the same

person: and the distinction will be the more entire, and in the proposed point

of view the more effective, the less the facility with which the exercise of

such art affords to the exercise of any the rest; and thence the more difficult

it will be for them to be exercised, all or several of them by one and the same

hand, to a degree of perfection adequate to the forbidden purpose.

The force of the obstruction thus produced, will not be materially different in

point of efficacy, whether it be the case of a confederacy, or whether the

enterprize be to be carried on by a single hand: in the case of a confederacy,

the obstruction results from the danger of detection by indiscretion, or

disagreement, as between confederate and confederate: a danger which increases,

of course, along with the multitude of the confederates: in the case of a single

hand, it results from the improbability that so many distinct branches of skill

shall be united in one and the same hand.

[marginal heading:] 2.

Distinct arts requisite – I. on the existing plan.

In the framing of a Bank Note upon the present plan, the number of concurrent

arts that may thus be stated as distinct ones, is but two, or at most but three:

viz. 1. The art of the Paper-maker 2d. The art of the Engraver of writing on

Copper Plate (to whom, were it only for

the