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The American Printer: a Manual of Typography, Containing Practical Directions for managing All Departments of a Printing Offie as Well as Complete Instructions for Apprentices: With Several Useful Tables, Numerous Schemes for Imposing Forms In Every ...
by MacKellar, Thomas
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan, 1885. Octavo. Fifteenth edition enlarged. 384pp., (6)pp. publisher's ad, illustrated. The present edition has been abridged and condensed in some respects, and considerably enlarged in others. As it stands at present, it will be found the most practical manual of printing extant. The pages have been reset in a type that finds much favour in the eyes of admirers of fine typography. Special attention has been given in setting forth the functions and duties of the foreman and proof-reader, so that the operations of an office may be prosecuted with efficiency, comfort, and economy. A very nice copy bound in brown cloth over beveled boards stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt, gray floral endpapers, all edges marbled, minor spots of wear to spine ends.
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- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Title
- The American Printer: a Manual of Typography, Containing Practical Directions for managing All Departments of a Printing Offie as Well as Complete Instructions for Apprentices: With Several Useful Tables, Numerous Schemes for Imposing Forms In Every ...
- Author
- MacKellar, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Typography Printing Imposition Type
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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