VABIOUS MODES OF PRINTING FROM AUTOGRAPHS. ^J 



child educated so to write with correctness. Besides, cop- 

 per is too dear ever to become useful. Yet this*method 

 might do for bhort pieces, if furnished with Or, hind's press, ^ 



(a ii>eful inshuiiient, that I believe has never yet been de- 

 scribed or published), and I have practised it, but is too 

 costly to answer i'or larjre works. Let us therefore suppose stenclUinf, 

 a kind of copper or brass latten to be rolled thin for the pur- 

 pose, and the writer to use a very corrosive ink, which in a 

 sliort time would eat quite through the whole body. He 

 would by ♦his means produce a stencil as fast as he could 

 write, by means of which lie would be enabled to piint the 

 right way. 



Again let us suppose he were to make use of capital let- Paper stencU. 

 ttrs only, acting as punches on paper, he would by this me- 

 thod have a paper stencil, that would last as long, perhaps 

 loniL^er, than the latten one. -r'-^^x ■ - / 



Tin foil again might be used ill t1tlS''«'ay, or fine Tinfoil, or bi«. 

 plates of bismuth, for common ingenuity might overcome "^"^^^• 

 the difficulties of the O and other letters by ties. Many j^^^y ^j^^^y, 

 people will smile at the idea of a paper stencil, who are ig- sand impres* 

 Dorant of the nature of paper when oiled; but I have been taken 'froni an 

 witness to Dr. Lind, of Windsor, printing from a single pro- oiled paper 

 file of the King, cut in paper, after he had used it for many ^*^"^' • 

 thousand impressions, and saw that it was still unimpaired. 



Again let us imagine thin and cheap pannels of wood Wood covereti 

 dipped inline v>laster of Paris so as to coat both sides, and ^"^ plaster of 

 , 1 1 1 ,. 1 1 1 . -. > • . ^''^"^» and cut 



then smoothed and well hardened by on : would not such a hi relief. 



block afibrd good impressions, if we were to cut down its snr- * V 



face, and leave the relief in cameo? This I have tried in 

 blocks of plaster of Paris, and made clear and good im- 

 pressions from a drawing thus cut out of a small block; 

 which, if not so Hard as wood, is still hard enough to impress 

 with, and, where few impressions only are wanted, a very 

 good sub^titute among men who can make their own draw- 

 ings, especially where they are object* that do not require 

 effect. ** ^• 



I have also imagined, that for diagrams, or plans, very Paper giueH on 

 thick paper firmly glued to a smooth board would, when the ^'od aiui cui 

 interior of the design was cut away, give relief enough for 

 printing, provided the lines were close enough; but in 



printing 



