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
Liberty press, illustrated, 247.
Lifting pages, 143.
Lightning press, Hoe’s, 239-242.
illustrated, 240.
Lilac ink, how to make, 288.
Lithographic chalk and ink, 28.
stone, 27.
transfer ink, how to make, 315.
Lithography, discovery of, 27.
practice of, 27-31.
Locking up forms, 147, 148.
Long letters, 59.
Long Primer, specimen of, 54.
Lord’s Prayer in Anglo-Saxon, 51.
Lower-case sorts, 59.
Machine-casting, 22.
Machine-made paper, sizes of, 298.
Machine-press of Isaac Adams, 237, 238.
Frederick, König, 238.
Applegath and Cowper, 238.
Richard M. Hoe, 239-242.
William Bullock, 242-244.
Campbell, 239, 246.
Cottrell & Babcock, 239.
Walter, 244.
Mackling, how to remedy, 263.
Make-up rule, steel, illustrated, 229.
Making margin, 145-147.
for jobs, 147.
ready a form, directions for, 257-260.
on cylinder presses, 265-275.
wood-cuts, directions for, 280-283.
register, directions for, 260.
Making up furniture, 144, 145.
in companionship, 229.
letter and furniture in companionships, 230.
_Manual de Adultos_, one of the first books printed in America, 16.
Manuccio, Aldo, 61.
Mappa, Adam G., one of the early American type-founders, 19.
Margin, how to make, 145-147.
on cylinder presses, 268.
Masoretic points, 106.
Mathematical signs, 71, 72.
Matrices, copper, 40.
electrotyped, 23.
Matrix, illustrated, 40.
Mazarin Bibles, 11.
Measure of stick, how to make by ems, 129.
Mecom, Benjamin, 24.
Medium paper, size of, 298.
Melting-kettle, description of, 252.
Metal rules, 75.
Metric system, 336, 337.
Minerva cutting machine, illustrated, 309.
Minion type, specimen of, 54.
Mitering machine, illustrated, 307.
Mittel, German name for English type, 53.
Modern conveniences, 120.
Mucilage, directions for making, 312, 313.
Mud process in stereotyping, 26.
Music, comparative table of bodies, 115.
directions for composing, 116.
plan of cases for, 117-119.
specimens of, 114.
_New Hampshire Gazette_, oldest living paper of the United States, 17.
Newspapers, number of, printed in the United States in 1801 and 1810, 20.
New types, how to prevent them from adhering together, 127.
_New York Gazette_, first newspaper published there, 17.
Nicks, position of, 58.
Nicholson, William, suggester of the cylinder press, 238.
Ninety-sixes, to impose half-sheet, 198.
Nonpareil press, illustrated, 247.
type, specimen of, 54.
Norse-Runic alphabet, 87, 88.
_North American and United States Gazette_, of Philadelphia, oldest
daily newspaper in the United States, 17.
Note paper, size of, 298.
Notes, proper size of type for, 131.
cut in, how arranged, 132.
Numeral letters, Gothic, 68, 69.
Greek, 67.
Roman, 68, 69.
Numerical value of Greek letters, 67, 98.
Hebrew letters, 104.
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