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II. Principles

1. Multiplication

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* 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 impressions 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 acts of the maker

of the matrixes the founder and the finisher, of the letters would indeed be

discarded; and the effect of the Letter-press might, in this way be discarded;

and the effect of the Letter-press might, in this way be produced (I suppose)

(as in the stereotype plan) as well as by separate types. – But whether by this

expedient any additional facility would, upon the whole, be produced is what I

cannot but doubt: it belongs to artists alone to pronounce – Here, however, at

any rate, arises a further use in increasing the quantity of Letter-press.
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    be taken for Letter-press: at least, if the impression made with the types be

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