| Title: | Forme |
| Original Title: | Forme |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 7 (1757), pp. 180–181 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Printing
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
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| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.227 |
| Citation (MLA): | "Forme." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.227>. Trans. of "Forme," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 7. Paris, 1757. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Forme." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.227 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Forme," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 7:180–181 (Paris, 1757). |
Forme, designates a quantity of set-up type in the desired format locked-up in a metal chase in which it is held by the furniture of sticks and by the quoins. See the plates on letterpress printing .