Leeu had been killed accidentally by one of his workmen in the course of a dispute, and this testimonial to him in the colophon, which reads as if the compositor had slipped it in of his own accord, is very gracious and touching in its simplicity.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
In the printing trade the craftsman is either a compositor a proof-reader, a make-up man, a pressman or a binder.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
And he succeeded, for few pen-men could exceed him in the rapidity with which he produced "copy" for the printer and none excelled him in sending that copy to the compositor in a form so free from error as to leave no question where blame for typographical blunders lay.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson