1765

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Source:

Title: The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. In which the whole circle of human learning is explained, and the difficulties attending the acquisition of every art, whether liberal or mechanical, are removed, in the most easy and familiar manner ... /
Authors: James Fletcher, William Smith, John Coote, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark, Temple Henry Croker
Publisher: -
Printer: J. Wilson & J. Fell (Paternoster Row), J. Fletcher & Co. (St. Paul’s Church-yard), J. Coote (Paternoster Row), Fletcher & Hodson (Cambridge), and W. Smith & Co. Dublin
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: London
Year: 1765
Links: [Scan 1] (Plate LXX, 3d Compartment).

Comments:

The dictionary states that this is about ‘Guilding leather’. The description of figure 5 in plate LXX, third compartment, states: ‘The rolling-press for printing the designs’. It appears under the heading ‘Gilding’. A rolling press for copper plate printing is shown on plate CIV on page 738.

The Wellcome Collection describes this image as: ‘A printer's workshop: on the left a printing press, on the right and centre workmen engaged in various tasks, the scene numbered for a key. Engraving after L.J. Goussier.’

The illustration by Louis-Jacques Goussier differs from the illustration in the Dictionary. It looks as if the illustration by Goussier is more detailed.

Technique:

Engraving.

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A very similar engraving was produced by Louis-Jacques Goussier [Source]:
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