compositor's

Originally, 'composition' meant the compositor's fee.

How to read a publishing contract (6) Stroppy Author 2010

A compositor's decision with The Reaping as conscious or unconscious motivator?

Of red waters, allophilia, and timeless masterpieces 2007

A compositor's decision with The Reaping as conscious or unconscious motivator?

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Quotations found in the original in the Greek alphabet have generally been transliterated, and a few corrections of compositor's typographical errors or omissions have been made which will be found within square brackets.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Perhaps a typographical error or compositor's misreading of the transcript; corrected elsewhere.

Defence of Poesie 1992

That the uninitiated reader may form some practical conception of my meaning, I propose to set down a few items from the weekly contents of a compositor's "bill-book," slightly enlarging his brief entries with the view of rendering them the more intelligible.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

As a specimen of stenotypography, or compositor's short-hand, we consider it _unique_.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various

In October, 1846, General Stager changed his location from the compositor's case to the telegraph operator's desk, commencing work as an operator in Philadelphia.

Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin

There, seated anywhere -- on the corner of a table, at a compositor's frame, or before a foreman's bureau -- he became completely absorbed in the colossal labour of reading and correcting his proofs.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

Samuel Quirk was wheeled in in an invalid chair, but, though he smiled urbanely on the company, he did not gather the significance of the proceedings, for he was now as much an infant as the head compositor's youngest baby.

Grey Town An Australian Story Gerald Baldwin