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

Description: nd [wm 1798]

To the Bank

II. Principles

1. Multiplicity

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

skill shall be united in one and the same hand.

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

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

The art of the Papermaker: 2. The art of the engraver of writing on Copper

plate; (to whom, were it only for 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.

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

following additional 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 punchions 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 Letterpress.

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 very /comparatively/ inexpert

in the other.

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

of the his[?] portrait.(a)

+ Reference onwards in the margin

JB_003_313.xml

Title: [[Copyist’s hand] nd [wm 1798]]

Description: [Copyist’s hand]

nd [wm 1798]

To the Bank

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.

JB_003_347.xml

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.

[marginal heading:] 5.

3. Encrease of the difficulty of concealment, in regard to the exercise of each

Art.-

3. As to the difficulty thrown in the way of concealment, in regard to the

productions of the several arts, the concurrence of which has been rendered

necessary as above. In the present state of things the only production by which

the criminal enterprize is capable of being betrayed is, in the case of

fabrication, the engraved plate: and, in the case of alteration, even this

resource fails. On the proposed plan, the following implement being added to the

apparatus necessary for bringing into existence the genuine work will be so many

articles, any one of which, if found in possession of any uncommissioned

individual, may, if made to receive an appropriate and adequate verbal

description, be sufficient to afford conclusive evidence of the crime - These

are –

1 The Drawing serving as a pattern to work from, in engraving the Portrait on the

Copper Plate.

2. The 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 & 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.

[marginal heading:] 6

4 & 5. Care taken, to choose such instruments and productions of art as

are susceptible of description formed by General words without depending

4 & 5 – As to the care taken, in the choice of the subsequent instruments

or productions in question, that they shall be such as are susceptible of verbal

description precise enough for the purpose of legal prohibition, and in the

adapting the description to that purpose.

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