The American Handbook Of Printing
Subtitle: containing in brief and simple style something about every department of the art and business of printing
By: containing in brief and simple style something about every department of the art and business of printing
Edition: 2d ed
Publisher: Oswald publishing company
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Printing; Printing -- History
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: [The information in this book is divided into eighteen chapters under proper headings, and each chapter subdivided into "Historical" and "Practical" portions, making it easy to find information wanted.]; title: 1. Introduction; title: Historical 1; title: Practical 9; title: 2. Type Making; title: Historical 13; title: Practical 15; title: 3. Type Faces; title: Historical 27; title: Practical 32; title: 4. Type Composition; title: Historical 53; title: Practical 67; title: Historical 97; title: 5. Typesetting Machines; title: Practical 100; title: 6. Proofreading; title: Historical 109; title: Practical 111; title: 7. Stonework; title: Historical 115; title: Practical 116; title: 8. Paper; title: Historical 131; title: Practical 136; title: 9. Composition Rollers; title: Historical 145; title: Practical 147; title: 10. Printing Inks; title: Historical 153; title: Practical 155; title: 11. Printing Presses; title: Historical 165; title: Practical 177; title: 12. Bookbinding; title: Historical 185; title: Practical 189; title: 13. Stereotyping and Electrotyping; title: Historical 199; title: Practical 201; title: 14. Engraving; title: Historical 205; title: Practical 219; title: 15. Lithography; title: Historical 219; title: Practical 225; title: 16. Newspapers and Magazines; title: Historical 231; title: Practical 259; title: 17. Advertising and Ad-Writing; title: Historical 261; title: Practical 268; title: 18. Printers 9 Business Methods; title: Historical 275; title: Practical 278; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Stamped brick of the Babylonians 2; title: Printing office of the fifteenth century 4; title: Franklin in a London printing office 5; title: First English bible 7; title: The three printing processes 9; title: Making type in 1564 14; title: Bruce type-casting machine 15; title: Punch, matrix and mold 16; title: Barth automatic type-casting machine 90; title: Sizes of type 99; title: The point system 93; title: Face widths of brass rule 96; title: Manuscript lettering and Gutenberg type face 98; title: Fancy type faces of 1880 31; title: Specimen lines of modern type faces 34-48; title: Ornamentation and type faces 51; title: Type case and composing stick of 1683 54; title: Page printed at Haarlem in 1484 55; title: Page printed by Aldus in 1495 56; title: Page printed by Geoffray in 1591 56; title: Page from Luther's bible of 1541 58; title: Page printed by William Morris, 1899 58; title: The first specimen of job printing 59; title: Display page of black tone 60; title: Display page of gray tone 60; title: Colonial display page of 1745 69; title: Job composing room of 1865 63; title: Display page of 1846 64; title: The same reset by DeVinne in 1909 64; title: Billhead of 1868 65; title: Bradley's Colonial style of 1896 66; title: Bradley's "newer" typography 66; title: Billhead of the curved rule period 67; title: Upper case and lower case 68; title: Composing stick and galley 69; title: Pages of black tone and gray tone 70; title: Cases in position on stand 71; title: Position of book pages 79; title: Job case and composing stick 73; title: Preliminary sketch and finished job 74; title: Position of display lines 75; title: Two modem styles 76; title: One face and and all capitals 77; title: Three harmonizing faces 77; title: A reset title-page 78; title: Specimens in color 81-96; title: Paige typesetting machine 98; title: Mergenthaler's Linotype of 1886 99; title: Linotype slugs and matrix 100; title: The Linotype 101; title: Running around illustrations 109; title: Monotype keyboard 105; title: Monotype castor 106; title: Simplex typesetting machine 107; title: Proofreaders' marks 111; title: Imposing stone 118; title: Comparative folds of sheet 119; title: Imposition diagrams 190-198; title: A schedule for checking forms 199; title: Japanese paper makers 139; title: Papyrus plant 133; title: Paper mill of the sixteenth century 134; title: Dandy-rolls 137; title: Paper cutter 138; title: Principles of a paper-making machine 139; title: Using ink-balls in 1564 146; title: Two old types of hand presses 166; title: First cylinder press 167; title: Applegath's vertical cylinder press 168; title: Hoe's ten-deck printing press 169; title: A modern web perfecting press 170; title: The three principles of press printing 171; title: A "drum" cylinder and a "two-revolution" 172; title: Pressroom of 1865 173; title: Gordon type of press 174; title: Gally's "Universal" press 175; title: Colts Armory press 176; title: Roller bearers in use 178; title: Register on deckel-edged stock 183; title: An early "binding" and the roll 185; title: Decorated cover boards 186; title: Old wooden binding 187; title: The word at foot of page 187; title: Sewing the sections 192; title: Books chained to shelves 198; title: Earliest known print 206; title: "Chap-book" cut 208; title: Modern wood-cut 213; title: Copperplate printing 214; title: Zinc line cut 216; title: Halftone cross lines 217; title: Lettered designs 222; title: Ascertaining proportions 223; title: Senefelder's lithographic press 226; title: An early "newspaper" 239; title: First number of New York Sun 241; title: The attack on the Tribune building 244; title: Editorial page of New York Journal 249; title: Page of country correspondence 254; title: Newspapers of three cities 257; title: The first advertisements 263; title: Specimens of modern advertising 270-271; title: Old form for job work 277; title: A system of office records 280-284; title: INSERTS; title: Colophon of Schoeffer's Psalter Opposite title-page; title: A modern composing-room " " page 79; title: A modern paper mill " " 136; title: Roller making " " 148; title: Chart for the harmony and mixing of colors " " 160; title: A modern press-room " " 180; title: Sewing and collating books " " 190; title: Folding and finishing books " " 199; title: Halftone screens, and colors photographed " " 218; title: Four kinds of halftones " " 220