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† ˈpantatype Obs.
[f. Gr. πάντα pl. ‘all things’ + type; but the etymological form is pantotype.]
The name given by Charles, Earl Stanhope, 1803, to a system of ‘universal type-printing’ projected by him.
1803A. Wilson Let. to Authors, etc., Aug. in Collectanea (O.H.S.) III. 377 Earl Stanhope has lately purchased the two important Secrets of Pantatype Printing and of Stereotype Printing, in order to give them to the Public. Pantatype Printing means universal type printing; being applicable to all subjects. 1896H. Hart Stanhope & Oxford Press (ibid. 411) What then was Pantatype? My own opinion is that..Ld. Stanhope thought he saw his way to a wide-spread adoption of what we now call ‘process’ work..Hard metal relief blocks [were to be used] in place of wood-cuts; intaglio engravings were to be copied and turned into relief blocks by the processes of Gengembre and others. |