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Nineteenth-century printing practices and the iron handpress : with selected readings / Richard-Gabriel Rummonds ; foreword by Stephen O. Saxe.

Title
Nineteenth-century printing practices and the iron handpress : with selected readings / Richard-Gabriel Rummonds ; foreword by Stephen O. Saxe.
Author
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel.
Publication
New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press in association with British Library, 2004.

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Description
2 v. : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
Examines of printing techniques from the late-seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century. Using selected readings from printers' manuals - beginning with Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John Southward's Practical Printing, 1900.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Printing > History > Sources
  • Printing > History > 19th century
  • Printing machinery and supplies > History > 19th century
  • Hand presses > History > 19th century
  • Printing > History > Bibliography
  • Printing > history
  • History, 19th Century
  • Printing > instrumentation
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 875-941) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1584560886
  • 1584561009 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2003045960
OCLC
  • 51855598
  • SCSB-12279072
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library