Printing and its accessories
Subtitle: a comprehensive book of charges for the guidance of letter-press and lithographic printers, engravers and bookbinders, with notes and items for reference, practical instructions in lithography, ink, chalk, and chromo : with descriptive illustrations and various receipts in connection therewith, together with 156 samples of English and foreign papers and tabular indexes, showing their comparative mill numbers, weights, etc., etc.
By: by G. Ruse and C. Straker.
Contributors: Straker, C.
Publisher: S. Straker & Son
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Printing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- 19th century.; Printing -- Estimates -- 19th century.; Bookbinding -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- 19th century.; Lithography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- 19th century.; Paper -- Sample books -- 19th century.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes folded table entitled: "Plan of Music Cases".

General advertisements on p. 1-16 and [1-4] at end.

Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Includes a group of 113 and another of 43 numbered sample leaves of colour paper (some lined) at end.

"Price 21/-"--Spine.

MASS copy: Bound in red bead-grain cloth blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold.
Table of contents: value: Preface; value: The letter-press printer; value: The lithographic printer; value: The bookbinder; value: The stationer.