1307.] 
fire, that the Stereotype plates rmaay be 
inftantly put to prefs, inftead of going 
through the tedious operations of move- 
able type printing; and thus no lofs will 
be fuftaimed from the works being out of 
print.—6thly. In Stereotype, every page 
of the moft extenfive work has a feparate 
plate; all the pages, therefore, of the faid 
work, muft be equally new and beautiful. 
By the old method, the types of each fheet 
are diftributed, and with them the fuc- 
ceeding theets are compofed; fo that, al- 
though the firft few fheets of a volume 
may be well printed, the laft part of the 
fame volume, in confequence of the types 
being in a gradual ftate of wear as the 
work proceeds, will appear to be exe- 
cuted in a very inferior manner.— 
Ythly. The Stereotype art poffefles a, 
fecurity againtt error, which muit ftamp 
every work fo printed with a fuperority 
of charaéter that no book from move- 
able types ever can attain. What an 
important confideration itis, that the in- . 
accuracies of language, the incorre¢tnefs 
of orthography, the blunders in punctu- 
ation, and the accidental miftakes that 
are continually occurring in the printing 
of works by moveable types, and to 
which every new edition fuperadds its 
own particular thare of error,—what a 
gratifying feeurity it is, that all deicrip- 
tions. of error are not only completely 
cured by the Stereotype invention,’ but 
that the certainty of the Stereotype plates 
remainining correct, may be almoit as 
fully relied on as if the poffibility of error 
did not at all exift!—If thefe obferva- 
tions be juft with reference to the print- 
ing of Enelith books, how forcibly muft 
they be felt when applied to the other 
lanzuages generally taught im this coun- 
try !—how much more forcibly when ap- 
plied to thofe languages which are the 
native dialeéts of the moftignorant clafies . 
throughout the United Kingdom, but 
which are as little underitood as they 
are generally fpoken!—8thly, Stereotype 
plates admit of alteration; and it will 
be found that they will yield at leatt 
twice the number of impretlions that 
moveable types are capable of producing. 
—Laftly, All the preceding advantages 
may be perpetuated, by the facility with 
which Stereotype plates are caft trom Ste- 
reotype plates. Suchisa general outline 
of the prefent ftate of the Stereotype in- 
vention ; and fuch are the obvious ad- 
vaiitages arifing from it to learning and 
to ignorance,—to every ftate and con- 
dition of civilized life. From the whole 
it refults, that-a faving ef 25], to 401, 
- Montury Mae., No. 156, 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence: 373 
per cent. will accrue to the public in 
the prices of all books of flandard_ re- 
putation and fale, which, I believe, are 
pretty accurately afcertaiued to com- 
prehend THREE FouRTHS of ail the book 
printing of England, Scotland, and Tre- 
land. It is fair to conclude, therefore, 
that the fales, both at home and abroad, 
will be coniiderably imcreafed, and that 
the duties on paper will be proportionally 
produétive ; fo that the public will be be- 
nefited in a twofold way by a general 
adoption and encouragement of the Ste- 
reotype art. ‘With this view, I think the 
period is now arrived when I ought to 
announce to all the refpectable clafies be- 
fore mentioned, particularly to Printers 
and Booktfellers, that I am fully prepared 
to enable them to participate im the ad- 
vantages to be derived from the Stereo- 
type art, in any way that may be moft 
conducive to their particular interefts, 
either individually or collectively. With 
re{pect to the improvements by Karl Stan- 
hope in the conftruction of printing-prefles, 
I deny that it is poffible to introduce the 
principles which command the power 
and regulate the fruth of this ingenious 
invention of his Lordithip’s into the com- 
mon working prefles’ hitherto in general 
ule.” ve 
' An Encyclopedia of Manufactures is 
announced, in which it is intended to 
trace every raw material from its growth 
‘until it is delivered into the hands of the 
workman, to develope the various modes 
of its fabrication, to point out the im- 
proyements each art bas received, and to 
detail the hiltory and progrefs of the im- 
provements, with hints tor their farther 
extenfion and fimplification, It will be 
completed in eight or ten yolumes octavo ; 
and itis mtended to publilh a part every 
two months, containing fix {heets of let- 
ter-prefs,. with .a fufhcient nuwnber of 
plates to ulultrate the different (ubjecis, 
making a volume annually. 
‘The minutes of the laft Conference of 
the Methodifts, held at Leeds in Auguit, 
1806, reprefent the numbers of that fo- 
ciety to be as follows: 
In. Great, Britains moll? iii 110,803 
UES Neola ts Een AME REY. COME ER OM apn EC ere?” 
Sibrahear sy) sere Sei 4 40 
Nova Scotia, New Brunfwick, and 
Newfotindland.t (4) sn. 1,418 
Wett-India Whites, TWAT AS) 
Coloured people, &c. 13,165 sahil 
United States-- whites, 95,628 2 
Coloured people, &c. 24,316 § 119,945 
) botal. «>. wi» 270,94% 
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