Tales of the print shop
By: by John Edward Allen ; illustrated by Howard W. Scott.
Publisher: Oswald Publishing Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Printing -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
Notes: "Eighteen of these stories have appeared in five publications devoted to printing. Most of the stories have been signed 'Jack Edwards'."
Table of contents: title: The straight of things; title: Launcelot and his two sons; title: Some inside information; title: Hubert Malnutritious Clingstone, Printer; title: What's the use of dying; title: How printer Jenkins solved the problem; title: Platen & Junk, master typographers; title: The psalm of a pair of pumps; title: David Farrow goes a-trancing; title: The ambitions of Jimmie Rew; title: Old man Gorrs and the seventh heaven; title: An ode to punctuation; title: The manuscript of a mangled mat; title: The tale of a tragic typo; title: The reformation of Jupiter Watts; title: Ad.-venturously speaking; title: How printing came to lovely coffin; title: A Broadway talk on make-up; title: The isle o' woman; title: Dobbs and I construct a Christmas card.