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.MacKellar, Thomas
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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.
MacKellar, Thomas
Graphic design (Typography); Printing -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Printing industry -- United States
Impression on cylinder presses, how to regulate, 269-275.
Indenting paragraphs, rule for, 132.
Index, directions for preparing copy of, 133.
rule for setting, 133.
where placed, 133.
India paper suitable for overlays, 280.
India-rubber cloth, good qualities of, 266.
Ink-block, how to be placed, 251.
Ink, black, how to intensify, 284.
coloured, 286, 287.
requires a hard roller, 267.
for cylinder presses, 267, 268.
for fine work, indispensable qualities of, 275, 276.
how to prevent setting off, 279.
how to remove surplus from the roller, 262.
how to produce amber, 288.
blue, 287, 288.
brown, 288.
fire-proof, 314.
green, 288.
lilac, 288.
pink, 288.
purple, 288.
red, 286-288.
scarlet, 288.
vermilion, 288.
to mark tin or zinc, 315.
driers, how to make, 315, 316.
Ink-fountain, how to manage, 268.
patent, illustrated, 310.
Ink-stone and muller, illustrated, 285.
Interleaving necessary in fine presswork, 279.
Interrogation, sign of, 63.
Iron furniture, how made, 310.
Ironical rules for compositors, 136, 137.
for beginners in business, 139, 140.
Italic letter, invention of, 50.
abuse of, 51.
Job department, 300-310.
capitals and lower-case should not be laid together, 304.
cases should be labelled with the type which is in case, 304.
how to conduct the business, 300.
memorandum slip for record, 301.
requisites for, 301-310.
selection of material, 300.
Job presses, American, unsurpassed, 246.
varieties of, 246-248.
Jobbing facilities, 300-310.
Jobs, making margin for, 147.
Johnson, Lawrence, type-founder in Philadelphia, 20.
William M., invents a type-casting machine, 22.
Journeymen, idle, 18.
Junius, Hadrianus, 10.
Justification, accurate, absolutely essential, 131.
Kerned letters, 59.
Kinsley, Dr., invents a cylinder press, 238.
Knowledge, progress of, accelerated by steam-presses, 240.
König, Frederick, inventor of the cylinder press, 238.
Koster, (or Coster,) Laurentius, inventor of printing, 9-14.
printer of block books, 10.
used wooden and tin type, 10.
Labour-saving brass rule, 81.
plan of case for, 82.
curvatures, 79.
quotation furniture, 77.
rule, 43, 81.
Lamp-holder, 309.
Laying a fount of type, directions for, 127.
pages, 143, 144.
Lead cutter, illustrated, 307.
Leads, described, 80.
Leather belting, how to soften, 316.
Lenox, James, of New York, collection of Bibles, 11.
Lepsius, R., hieroglyphic types of, 83.
Letter paper, size of, 298.
_Letters of Indulgence_, of 1454-5, 11.
Letters, accented, 67.
ascending, 59.
descending, 59.
double, 59.
kerned, 59.
long, 59.
numeral, 67.
short, 59.
two-line, 76.
Ley, directions for making, 312.
not to be used on wood-cuts, 283.
Ley-brush, how to be made, 265.
Ley-trough, described, 264, 265.
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