Modern printing
Subtitle: a handbook of the principles and practice of typography and the auxiliary arts
By: by John Southward ... ; assisted by well-known experts.
Contributors: De Montfort Press
Publisher: Raithby, Lawrence & Company, Limited
Published: 1898
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Printing industry -- 19th century.; Printing -- 19th century.; Color printing -- 19th century.; Printing machinery and supplies -- 19th century.
Notes: Each v. includes 12 p. of general advertisements at the beginning.

"Each Section will, to a certain extent, be complete in itself.  Thus the present instalment of the work treats of the following subjects:--The arrangement and equipment of the printing office; the appliances and materials used in the composing room; the principles of typesetting and distributing by hand; bookwork routine, from taking up copy to correcting on machine.  Mechanical composition; news work; jobbing; setting foreign languages, table and mathematical work, music type; ornamental composition, typographic designing, and reading, will be included amongst the subjects to be dealt with in the second Section."--Preface to the first section.

"The present Section completes the matter dealing with the composing room; the next Section will be devoted to press and machine work and colour printing.  The specimen of chromo-typography given in the present volume was printed at the De Montfort Press, Leicester.  Instructions for this class of work will be found in the forthcoming Section."--Preface to the second section.

"In this section of 'Modern Printing' the chief subjects dealt with are Presswork and Colour Printing, and in treating of them an endeavour has been made to describe the latest and best appliances and methods ... 'Modern Printing' is, however, also intended to be a practical book of reference for the printing office.  Hence the space allotted to accounts of printing machinery.  These accounts, it is hoped, may be of service to employers and managers as well as to journeymen and apprentices."--Preface to the third section.

"In compiling this, the Fourth and concluding Section of 'Modern printing,' I have enjoyed the great advantage of being assisted by several gentlemen whose names are in themselves guarantees of the value and importance of their respective contributions ... Mr. Walter Haddon proprietor of the Caxton Type Foundry, Market Harboro', has permitted practical type-founders in his service to correct the article on type-founding.  Mr. E. H. Atkinson, of the firm of Garratt & Atkinson, photo-engravers, Ealing, has revised the article on process blocks and added original matter of his own.  Messrs. Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd., proprietors of the De Montfort Press, Leicester, have permitted the reproduction of some of their office forms ... Mr. J. C. Lawrence, of the same firm, has supplied chapters on the proper methods of ascertaining the real cost of production of printed matter, and on the principles involved in estimating ..."--Preface to the fourth section.

Each section includes an index.  Section four includes appendices and a complete index to all sections.

Vol. titles taken from covers.

"3/6 Net"--Covers.

MASS copy: Bound in dark blue fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold.  With black glazed endpapers.
Table of contents: value: Section I. The composing room; value: Section II. Book & jobbing composition. Machine composition; value: Section III. Press and machine work. Colour printing.; value: Section IV. Arts auxiliary to printing, business management, &c., &c.