[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