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.

A different process must be used in the wetting of drawing and plate papers. These papers are usually sent in quite flat; that is, not folded into quires or half-quires. The bes...

The index is generally placed at the end of the volume, and set in letter two sizes less than that of the work. It is always begun upon an uneven page. In setting an index, the...

_The India-rubber cloth_ combines many good qualities not found in other tympans: it has something of the density of the pasteboard, the hardness and evenness of paper, and the...

The quality of the paper is of great consequence in fine printing; but it is frequently overlooked by the printer’s employers, who are apt to pay more attention to a showy appea...

The invention of steam printing presses rendered books and periodicals so cheap that the progress of knowledge was amazingly accelerated; and soon the capacity of the cylinder p...

In general the pronunciation of Russian words depends especially upon the tonic accent, which is no longer printed in Russian books, except to distinguish some homonymous words,...

In 1804, before the introduction of stereotyping into this country, Mathew Carey, the well-known enterprising publisher in Philadelphia, had the Bible in quarto set up entire, a...

A photograph, brush drawing, or any copy that is not made up of line or stipple, can be produced without the necessity of a line drawing by the aid of the half-tone process. The...

Where several words have been left out, they are transcribed at the bottom of the page, and a line drawn from the place of omission to the written words, (see No. 15;) but if th...

Blanks were left for the places of titles, initial letters, and other ornaments, to be supplied afterward by illuminators, whose calling did not long survive the masterly improv...

When a first proof is pulled, the compositor who imposed the sheet ought to collect and arrange the copy, and deliver both to the reader, who, after folding the sheet to prove t...

Other colours may be made,—viz., lake and Indian red, which produce a deep red; verditure and indigo, for blues; orpiment, pink, yellow ochre, for yellows; verdigris and green v...

[1] The earliest testimony in favour of Koster is contained in a German volume published at Cologne in 1499, known as the _Chronicle of Cologne_, which was printed by Ulrich Zel...

The foregoing calculations are intended to serve where a line of print takes in less than a line of copy; and, therefore, where a line of print takes in more than a line of copy...

A compositor who studies propriety and neatness in his work will not allow an unnecessary division, even in a narrow measure, if he can avoid it by overrunning two or three line...

Besides the foregoing, a smaller size than Diamond, called Brilliant, is now cast in the foundry of MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan of Philadelphia, the body of which is just one-hal...

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Answer many of the purposes of quotations, but are principally useful as frames or miniature chases for circular or oval jobs. The sizes are graduated from 5 × 8 to 12 × 18 Pica...

Hebrew accents, 106-108. alphabet, identical with Phœnician, 83. alphabetical table of, 104. Bible, first printed, 14. letters, numeral value of, 104. letters of similar appeara...

+-------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+-------------+ |NO. OF | | | | | | | | PAPER FOR | |FORMS. | 8vo. | 12mo.| 16mo.| 18mo.| 24mo.| 32mo.| 36mo.| 1000 COPI...

This e-text uses a lot of uncommon Unicode characters, for example ℔ (U+2114 L B BAR SYMBOL), ꝥ (U+A765 LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE), ♈ (U+2648 ARIES). If these (and ot...

Bible, first, printed at Mentz, by Gutenberg, Fust and Schœffer, in 1455, of which there are four copies in Europe and two in the United States, 11. Brinley’s, 11. German, print...

_An Ink for Marking Tin or Zinc._—An ink composed of copper one part, dissolved in ten parts nitric acid, ten parts water being afterward added, is useful for marking on tin or...

_Remark._—From singe, springe, swinge, tinge, we write _singeing_, _springeing_, _swingeing_, _tingeing_, to distinguish from _singing_, _springing_, _swinging_, and _tinging_....

The next business is to arrange the margin, so that each page may occupy one side of a leaf, and have the proper proportion of white paper left at the sides as well as at the he...

+---------+-------------------+---------+-----------+ | FORMS. | NAMES IN GREEK | SOUNDS. | NUMERICAL | | | AND ENGLISH. | | VALUE. | +---------+-------------------+---------+--...

_This establishment, the oldest in America, has kept even pace with all the improvements in type-founding; and its productions at the present day, in beauty of style, accuracy o...