Category: History - British
England was slow to take up printing and slow and backward in the development of it. It was 25 years after the invention of printing before any printing was done in England. It was many years after that before the work of the English printers could compare with that done on th...
The eighteenth century was a very important time in the history of English printing. It was the period of the changes and inventions which led over from the mediævalism of the s...
5. CHAPTER IIThe middle of the sixteenth century marks a distinct change in English printing. Up to this time the industry in England had been neither organized, regulated, nor censored. It...
6. CHAPTER IIIOne name stands out among English printers of this period, that of John Day, who has been described as “one of the best and most enterprising of printers.” Day was born in 1522...
8. CHAPTER VCharles Whittingham, the elder, founder of the business which is now known as the Chiswick Press, was born in 1767. He began work as a printer in 1789 on a very small scale. His...
4. CHAPTER IEngland was slow to take up printing and slow and backward in the development of it. It was 25 years after the invention of printing before any printing was done in England. It...
18. PART X—_MiscellaneousThis series of Typographic Text-books is the result of the splendid cooperation of a large number of firms and individuals engaged in the printing business and its allied indust...
9. PART I—_Types, Tools, Machines, and MaterialsA primer of information regarding the history and mechanical construction of platen printing presses, from the original hand press to the modern job press, to which is added a c...
14. PART VI—_Correct Literary Composition15. PART VII—_Design, Color, and LetteringA handbook of the principles of arrangement, with brief comment on the periods of design which have most influenced printing. Treats of harmony, balance, proportion, and rhythm;...
10. PART II—_Hand and Machine CompositionSuggestions for the apprentice compositor in setting his first jobs, especially about the important little things which go to make good display in typography. 63 pp.; examples;...
16. PART VIII—_History of PrintingA primer of information about the beginnings of printing, the development of the book, the development of printers’ materials, and the work of the great pioneers. 63 pp.; 55 rev...
17. PART IX—_Cost Finding and Accounting12. PART IV—_PressworkThe essential parts of a press and their functions; distinctive features of commonly used machines. Preparing the tympan, regulating the impression, underlaying and overlaying,...
13. PART V—_Pamphlet and Book BindingPractical information about the usual operations in binding books: folding, gathering, collating, sewing, forwarding, finishing. Case making and cased-in books. Hand work and ma...
11. PART III—_Imposition and Stonework3. CHAPTER V1. CHAPTER II2. CHAPTER III