The American Printer: A Manual of Typography

The American Printer: A Manual of Typography - Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.

Usefulness rather than originality has been aimed at in the preparation of the American Printer, which is offered as an improvement on the typographical work formerly published by us. In addition to the results of actual personal experience embodied in the volume, information has been gathered and extracts have been freely made from various publications, such as Ames and Dibdins Typographical Antiquities, Thomass History of Printing, Timperleys Dictionary of Printers and Printing, Savages Dictionary of Printing, Johnsons Typographia, Chamberss Encyclopdia, Beadnells Guide to Typography, as well as other books referred to in the notes. The work has been prepared amid the manifold interruptions incident to business life; yet we think nothing has been overlooked that is essential for the instruction of the learner or for the assistance of the workman. [vi] Besides the matter relating to practical typography, the volume contains a sketch of the discovery of printing, and notices of type-founding, stereotyping, electrotyping, and lithography. The implements employed in typography are described and their uses explained; and complete schemes for imposition are laid down. The valuable tables and the plans of cases for various languages, and for music and labour-saving rule, will be found extremely useful; as well as the extensive lists of abbreviations and of foreign words and phrases, and orthographical hints. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 56817
Author: MacKellar, Thomas
Release Date: Mar 23, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English