compositor

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Therefore I immediately agreed, on the Terms of Fifty Pounds a Year, Pensylvania Money less indeed than my then present Gettings as a Compositor, but affording a better Prospect.—

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Bradford had not been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer tho' something of a Scholar, was a mere Compositor, knowing nothing of Presswork.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

The Paige Compositor marches alone and far in the lead of human inventions.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Sir," says the Compositor to the Corrector of the Press "there is no heading for the copy for this chapter.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

George Webb, an Oxford Scholar, whose Time for 4 Years he had likewise bought, intending him for a Compositor: of whom more presently.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.