The swifts
Subtitle: printers in the age of typesetting races
By: Walker Rumble.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Typesetting -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Typesetting -- Competitions -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Printers -- United States -- Biography.; Printers -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Printing industry -- Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Typesetting machines -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Gutenberg legacy; title: The Arensberg wager and the swifts; title: The gendered machine of Timothy Alden; title: Augusta Lewis and Women's Typographical Union No. 1; title: Joseph McCann takes the swifts to the show; title: Fast women : the Boston typesetting races of 1886; title: Mr. Mergenthaler's revolution; title: Art and the swifts : shopfloor design from Harpel to Rogers; title: The death of a velocipede.