polytypagen.
/ˈpɒlɪˌtʌɪpɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpɑliˌtaɪpɪdʒ/ Printing. Now historical.
The art or process of making polytypes.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > making of polytypes, etc.
polytypage1803
electrotype1840
electrotyping1842
cerography1846
chemitypy1851
1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. lxxxiv. 534 (note) The learned Camus, in his ‘Historical Sketch of Polytypage and Stereotypage’.
1887 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries x. 220 In France, Firmin Didot..succeeded in 1798 in producing good stereo plates by a system of polytypage.
1921 H. C. Forster From Xylographs to Lead Moulds 12 A system that the type-founders of about 1800 called Polytypage, which is a cast facsimile copy of an engraved block of type matter.
1940 H. M. Lydenburg tr. A. Blum Origins Painting & Engraving ii. ii. 130 There are movable borders as in a passe-partout to be applied to a print according to its dimensions. This is what is called polytypage, a..practice credited by Didot to the printers of books of hours, and noted by Courboin in earlier dotted prints.
1996 R. Balinski tr. J. P. Poirier Lavoisier xvii. 319 He [sc. Lavoisier] recommended polytypage, which, thanks to steel plates, made it possible to print up to 20,000 completely identical proofs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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