| Title: | Galley |
| Original Title: | Galée |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 7 (1757), p. 434 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Printing
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| Citation (MLA): | "Galley." 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.did2222.0003.873>. Trans. of "Galée," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 7. Paris, 1757. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Galley." 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.did2222.0003.873 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Galée," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 7:434 (Paris, 1757). |
Galley. This printing tool is a sort of little tablet placed on the top of the case on the side containing the small capitals, where it is held by two pegs five or six lines long. [1] On it the compositor places his composed type line by line — or several lines at once – according to the height of the composing stick that he is using. The galley comprises two pieces, the body and the slice; [2] the body is a rectangular oak board six or seven lines thick and of length and width suitable for the work [being set]. On [three of] the sides of the body are attached three strips of wood the same thickness of the body grooved to accept and hold the slice, which is another straight-sided board two lines thick and of the same proportions as the body of the galley and with a handle formed from the same board. The strips provide the galley with an area five or six lines high on which the type rests and is held in place. When the compositor has finished a page he ties it round with string, pulls the slice with the type on it out of the body and puts it on a tablet under his case. He then puts another slice into the galley to hold another composed page. This type of galley is used only for folio and quarto formats. For octavo and other smaller formats other galleys are used which have no slices and whose sides are only five or six lines deep. See our Letterpress printing Plates [Plate II figs. 13-15]; see also Galley-slice.
In printing, the expression to compose in galleys is used; [3] that is, to set up the type in galleys , but without page numbers or signatures, until preceding matter has been fully set up, after which the material set in galleys is added to it and page number and signatures are inserted.
Notes
1. There are 12 lignes to one pre-revolutionary French inch ( pouce ) The standardized conversion for a ligne is 2.2558291 mm (1 mm = 0.443296 ligne ). One ligne is the equivalent of 0.0888 international inch.
2. Coulisse. This slide was called the slice in English printing and the first type of galley described in this article was a slice-galley. More details of the use of the galley will be found in William Savage, Dictionary of the art of printing (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841), 248-49.
3. An example of the use of setting in galleys is given in Savage, Dictionary of the art of printing, 754, in the section, “Set at Random.”