Planting sorts

When certain sorts run short upon a particular work, and one compositor, having a good quantity, hides them from his companions, he is said to “plant” them. This is a reprehensible custom, and in well-regulated offices is punished by a fine; for not only is it an hindrance to the progress of the work, but oftentimes involves an unnecessary expense to the employer, by causing an order on the typefounder for sorts that might be done without, did more honourable feeling exist in the companionship.