| Title: | Copy-holder clip |
| Original Title: | Mordant |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 10 (1765), p. 707 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Printing
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| Citation (MLA): | "Copy-holder clip." 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.did2222.0003.874>. Trans. of "Mordant," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 10. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Copy-holder clip." 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.did2222.0003.874 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Mordant," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 10:707 (Paris, 1765). |
Copy-holder clip, a tool used by the compositor in the printing trade . It is a little piece of wood, roughly square and ten or eleven inches long and about two-and-a-half inches in circumference which is bifurcated and hollowed out for seven or eight inches of its length. A compositor usually uses two copy-holder clips . They serve to hold the copy against the copy-holder and to prevent it slipping by gripping the copy under its front branch while its back branch presses against the back of the copy-holder. The first copy-holder clip , as one may call the upper one, stays fixed while the second serves to indicate to the compositor the line which he is composing. He places it above the current line and is careful to lower it as the composition advances; if he is not careful to do this he is at risk of making outs. See Out. See in the Printing Plates the figures showing the copy-holder and its clips and their use. [1]
Notes
1. The text does not specify which Plate. However, Plate II figs. 8 to 12 show various views of the copy holder, the clips and the roll of paper padding used with them.