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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

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: MacKellar, Thomas

MacKellar, Thomas

Graphic design (Typography); Printing -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Printing industry -- United States

Octavo, scheme for imposing sheet of, 157, 158.
    sheet of, the broad way, 157, 158.
    two half-sheets, together, 159, 160.
    sheet mixed, 161, 162.
    half-sheet, 159.
    two quarters, together, 160.
    sheet of Hebrew, 161, 162.
    sheet of, from the centre, 163, 164.
    half-sheet of, do., 163.
    two quarter-sheets, do., 164.

  Oiling a press, 292.

  Old English letter used by the early printers, 49.

  Old-style figures, advantages of, 70.

  Old works, no license of alteration allowable in reprinting, 202.

  One hundred and twenty-eights, scheme for imposing half-sheet of, 199.

  Ornaments, ancient, exquisite and curious, 15, 16.

  Orthography, hints on, 318-332.
    uniformity in, 202.

  Overlaying on cylinder presses, 272, 273.
    on hand-presses, 277.

  Overrunning, proper method of, 210.

  Overseer, duties of, 218-232.

  Over-sheets, rules for giving out, 294.


  Packet note paper, size of, 298.
    post paper, size of, 298.

  Pages, how to tie up, 142, 143.
    how to lift, 143.
    how to lay, 143.

  Palmaert, Lambert, printed at Valencia, 1479, 14.

  Paper-bank, how to be placed, 259.

  Paper for jobs, rule for giving out, 294.
    cutters, 309.
    instructions for wetting, 255-257.
    qualities of good, 276.
    quantity required for a book, 299.
    sizes of, 298.
    suitable for fine printing, 257.

  Papier-maché moulds, 242.

  Paragon type, so called by printers in all countries, 52.

  Paragraph mark, how used, 66.

  Paragraphs, authors’ irregularities in making, 132, 133.
    rule for indenting, 132.

  Parchment tympans, 254.

  Parenthesis, use of, 65, 66.

  Pasteboard tympan for a cylinder press, advantages of, 265.

  Paste, directions for making, 312.

  Pearl type, specimen of, 54.

  Peerless press, illustrated, 248.

  Penn, William, promotes printing in Pennsylvania, 17.

  Perforating machine for round holes, illustrated, 308.
    rule, illustrated, 308.

  Perforator, Ames’s Patent, 308.

  Period, use of, 62.

  Petit and Jungfer, German names of Brevier, 54.

  Petit Romain, French name of Long Primer, 54.

  _Petri Hispani Tractatibus Logicis_, one of the first printed books, 10.

  Phœnician alphabetic system, 83.

  Photo-engraving, 35-38.

  Phrases, foreign, translated, 357-372.

  Pica, specimen of, 53.
    the standard type, 52.

  Picks in types, how to remove, 262.
    in wood-cuts, how to take out, 281.

  Pietrison, Thomas, the inventor of printers’ ink, 10.

  Pink ink, how to produce, 288.

  Planetary signs, 73, 74.

  Plate paper, directions for wetting, 256.

  Plumbago, used in electrotyping, 27, 45.

  Point system of type bodies, 55, 56.

  Points, how to arrange, 258.

  Polyglot founders, 18.

  Position of nicks, 58.
    in composing, 127.

  Prefaces, rules concerning, 135.

  Press-book, form of, 222.

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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

Octavo, scheme for imposing sheet of, 157, 158.
    sheet of, the broad way, 157, 158.
    two half-sheets, together, 159, 160.
    sheet mixed, 161, 162.
    half-sheet, 159.
    two quarters, together, 160.
    sheet of Hebrew, 161, 162.
    sheet of, from the centre, 163, 164.
    half-sheet of, do., 163.
    two quarter-sheets, do., 164.

  Oiling a press, 292.

  Old English letter used by the early printers, 49.

  Old-style figures, advantages of, 70.

  Old works, no license of alteration allowable in reprinting, 202.

  One hundred and twenty-eights, scheme for imposing half-sheet of, 199.

  Ornaments, ancient, exquisite and curious, 15, 16.

  Orthography, hints on, 318-332.
    uniformity in, 202.

  Overlaying on cylinder presses, 272, 273.
    on hand-presses, 277.

  Overrunning, proper method of, 210.

  Overseer, duties of, 218-232.

  Over-sheets, rules for giving out, 294.


  Packet note paper, size of, 298.
    post paper, size of, 298.

  Pages, how to tie up, 142, 143.
    how to lift, 143.
    how to lay, 143.

  Palmaert, Lambert, printed at Valencia, 1479, 14.

  Paper-bank, how to be placed, 259.

  Paper for jobs, rule for giving out, 294.
    cutters, 309.
    instructions for wetting, 255-257.
    qualities of good, 276.
    quantity required for a book, 299.
    sizes of, 298.
    suitable for fine printing, 257.

  Papier-maché moulds, 242.

  Paragon type, so called by printers in all countries, 52.

  Paragraph mark, how used, 66.

  Paragraphs, authors’ irregularities in making, 132, 133.
    rule for indenting, 132.

  Parchment tympans, 254.

  Parenthesis, use of, 65, 66.

  Pasteboard tympan for a cylinder press, advantages of, 265.

  Paste, directions for making, 312.

  Pearl type, specimen of, 54.

  Peerless press, illustrated, 248.

  Penn, William, promotes printing in Pennsylvania, 17.

  Perforating machine for round holes, illustrated, 308.
    rule, illustrated, 308.

  Perforator, Ames’s Patent, 308.

  Period, use of, 62.

  Petit and Jungfer, German names of Brevier, 54.

  Petit Romain, French name of Long Primer, 54.

  _Petri Hispani Tractatibus Logicis_, one of the first printed books, 10.

  Phœnician alphabetic system, 83.

  Photo-engraving, 35-38.

  Phrases, foreign, translated, 357-372.

  Pica, specimen of, 53.
    the standard type, 52.

  Picks in types, how to remove, 262.
    in wood-cuts, how to take out, 281.

  Pietrison, Thomas, the inventor of printers’ ink, 10.

  Pink ink, how to produce, 288.

  Planetary signs, 73, 74.

  Plate paper, directions for wetting, 256.

  Plumbago, used in electrotyping, 27, 45.

  Point system of type bodies, 55, 56.

  Points, how to arrange, 258.

  Polyglot founders, 18.

  Position of nicks, 58.
    in composing, 127.

  Prefaces, rules concerning, 135.

  Press-book, form of, 222.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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.

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