The American handbook of printing pdf

The American handbook of printing

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Contents [The information in this book is divided into eighteen chapters under proper headings, and each chapter subdivided into “Historical” and “Practical” portions, making it easy to find information wanted.] 1. Introduction Historical 1 Practical 9 2. Type Making Historical 13 Practical 15 3. Type Faces Historical 27 Practical 32 4. Type Composition Historical 53 Practical 67 Historical 97 5. Typesetting Machines Practical 100 6. Proofreading Historical 109 Practical 111 7. Stonework Historical 115 Practical 116 8. Paper Historical 131 Practical 136 9. Composition Rollers Historical 145 Practical 147 10. Printing Inks Historical 153 Practical 155 11. Printing Presses Historical 165 Practical 177 12. Bookbinding Historical 185 Practical 189 13. Stereotyping and Electrotyping Historical 199 Practical 201 14. Engraving Historical 205 Practical 219 15. Lithography Historical 219 Practical 225 16. Newspapers and Magazines Historical 231 Practical 259 17. Advertising and Ad-Writing Historical 261 Practical 268 18. Printers 9 Business Methods Historical 275 Practical 278 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Stamped brick of the Babylonians 2 Printing office of the fifteenth century 4 Franklin in a London printing office 5 First English bible 7 The three printing processes 9 Making type in 1564 14 Bruce type-casting machine 15 Punch, matrix

and mold 16 Barth automatic type-casting machine 90 Sizes of type 99 The point system 93 Face widths of brass rule 96 Manuscript lettering and Gutenberg type face 98 Fancy type faces of 1880 31 Specimen lines of modern type faces 34-48 Ornamentation and type faces 51 Type case and composing stick of 1683 54 Page printed at Haarlem in 1484 55 Page printed by Aldus in 1495 56 Page printed by Geoffray in 1591 56 Page from Luther’s bible of 1541 58 Page printed by William Morris, 1899 58 The first specimen of job printing 59 Display page of black tone 60 Display page of gray tone 60 Colonial display page of 1745 69 Job composing room of 1865 63 Display page of 1846 64 The same reset by DeVinne in 1909 64 Billhead of 1868 65 Bradley’s Colonial style of 1896 66 Bradley’s “newer” typography 66 Billhead of the curved rule period 67 Upper case and lower case 68 Composing stick and galley 69 Pages of black tone and gray tone 70 Cases in position on stand 71 Position of book pages 79 Job case and composing stick 73 Preliminary sketch and finished job 74 Position of display

lines 75 Two modem styles 76 One face and and all capitals 77 Three harmonizing faces 77 A reset title-page 78 Specimens in color 81-96 Paige typesetting machine 98 Mergenthaler’s Linotype of 1886 99 Linotype slugs and matrix 100 The Linotype 101 Running around illustrations 109 Monotype keyboard 105 Monotype castor 106 Simplex typesetting machine 107 Proofreaders’ marks 111 Imposing stone 118 Comparative folds of sheet 119 Imposition diagrams 190-198 A schedule for checking forms 199 Japanese paper makers 139 Papyrus plant 133 Paper mill of the sixteenth century 134 Dandy-rolls 137 Paper cutter 138 Principles of a paper-making machine 139 Using ink-balls in 1564 146 Two old types of hand presses 166 First cylinder press 167 Applegath’s vertical cylinder press 168 Hoe’s ten-deck printing press 169 A modern web perfecting press 170 The three principles of press printing 171 A “drum” cylinder and a “two-revolution” 172 Pressroom of 1865 173 Gordon type of press 174 Gally’s “Universal” press 175 Colts Armory press 176 Roller bearers in use 178 Register on deckel-edged stock 183 An early “binding” and the roll 185 Decorated cover boards 186 Old wooden binding 187 The word at foot of page 187 Sewing the sections 192

Books chained to shelves 198 Earliest known print 206 “Chap-book” cut 208 Modern wood-cut 213 Copperplate printing 214 Zinc line cut 216 Halftone cross lines 217 Lettered designs 222 Ascertaining proportions 223 Senefelder’s lithographic press 226 An early “newspaper” 239 First number of New York Sun 241 The attack on the Tribune building 244 Editorial page of New York Journal 249 Page of country correspondence 254 Newspapers of three cities 257 The first advertisements 263 Specimens of modern advertising 270-271 Old form for job work 277 A system of office records 280-284 INSERTS Colophon of Schoeffer’s Psalter Opposite title-page A modern composing-room ” ” page 79 A modern paper mill ” ” 136 Roller making ” ” 148 Chart for the harmony and mixing of colors ” ” 160 A modern press-room ” ” 180 Sewing and collating books ” ” 190 Folding and finishing books ” ” 199 Halftone screens, and colors photographed ” ” 218 Four kinds of halftones ” ” 220 Digitized by Google

• Creator/s: Gress, Edmund Geiger, 1872-1934
• Date: 1909
• Year: 1909
• Book Topics/Themes: Printing

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