33. The mould for casting type was always called the hand-mould in English; for brevity I shall simply call it the ‘mould’ here.

The figures of the parts of the mould, which is a complicated device containing about 50 components, are necessarily not very easy to understand. But, to make confusion worse confounded, the legend for Plate III is attached to Plate II, the legend for Plate II is attached to the plate labelled Iere - which is, in fact the second plate, and the first plate, instead of being numbered 1 has no number. The third plate is labelled Suitte de la Pl. II. in the top right corner . In addition (see note 23) there are errors in the numbering of the figures on the first plate, and the numbers in the text do not always correspond to those in the figure or in the legend. I have done my best to make sense of the resulting chaos....