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Definition of Letterpresses
1. letterpress [n] - See also: letterpress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Letterpresses
Literary usage of Letterpresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railroad Operations: How to Know Them : from a Study of the Accounts and by James Shirley Eaton (1900)
"... embracing for the most part only those articles that are of current consumption
in connection with clerical work. Typewriters, letterpresses ..."
2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1889)
"letterpresses.—No system of sizes. Picture-Frames.—There is in the market a line
of what are called ' ordinary sizes," and pictures and glass are also ..."
3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"A work and a fruit basket : exhibited for the beauty of the eastings. A horned
beetle, and salamander letterpresses : eastings from the ..."
4. The Science of Railways ...: With Illustrations of the Inception, Growth and by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1894)
"A railway company uses everything that a stationer has for sale — journals,
ledgers, letterpresses, paper, blanks, forms, pencils, pens, inks, erasers, ..."
5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1903)
"A railway company uses everything that a stationer has for sale—journals, ledgers,
letterpresses, paper, blanks, forms, pencils, pens, inks, erasers, ..."
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