class: middle # The Early Printing Press
### Matthew J. Lavin ### Clinical Assistant Professor of English and Director of Digital Media Lab ### University of Pittsburgh ### October 2017 --- class: middle
### "All improvements in presses before the Stanhope press of 1800, were in matters of detail alone, and in no way affected the principles or general construction of the machine " (McKerrow 40)
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### "[My description of the press] is, I believe, in general correct for the later part of the sixteenth century, and the whole of the seventeenth" (McKerrow 42)
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### "the press consisted of an upright frame standing about six feet high," with two side pieces called cheeks, and a crosspiece at the top called a cap (McKerrow 42)
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### Two "stout, wooden ribs" bearing iron rails ran lengthwise on the frame, and the plank moved along these rails (McKerrow 42)
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### The plank "could be slid in out out between the cheeks of the press on the rails" (McKerrow 44)
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