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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

Press arbitrarily restricted, 235.
    history of invention of, 235-248.
    old common, 235.
    to print and number railroad tickets and coupons, 246.

  Presses—see machine-presses.
    how to oil, 292.

  Pressing sheets, mode of, 296, 297.

  Pressmen should examine every sheet as printed, 263.
    rules and remedies for, 262-264.
    should study fine specimens of printing, 277.

  Presswork, requisites for producing fine, 275-279.

  Prima, 203.

  Printed sheets, how treated, 295-297.

  Printers, how not to succeed in business, 139, 140.
    ironical rules for, 136, 137.

  Printer’s knife, illustrated, 210, 211.

  Printing, discovery of, 9-14.
    extension of, 13.
    in bronzes, 284, 285.
    in colours, 285-288.
    in gold, directions for, 284.
    introduced into America, 16.
    manner of discovery, 9-12.

  Printing-machine, type-revolving, 240-242.

  Printing-offices, rules to be observed in, 233, 234.

  Printing-press, amateur, 248.
    Bullock, 242-244.
    Campbell, 239, 246.
    Cottrell & Babcock, 239.
    Degener, 246, 247.
    Earl Stanhope’s, 236.
    earliest, 235.
    first set up in North America, 16.
    Frederick König’s, 238.
    Gally, 246.
    George Clymer’s, 236.
    George P. Gordon’s, 246, 247.
    invention of the, 235-248.
    Isaac Adams’s, 237.
    Job, 246-248.
    Peter Smith’s, 237.
    Railroad-ticket, 246.
    Ramage’s, 236.
    Richard M. Hoe’s, 239-242.
    Ruggles, 246.
    Samuel Rust’s, 237.
    Walter, 244.
    Wells, 246.
    Willem Jansen Blaeu’s, 235.

  Proof-marks, explanation of, 214, 215.
    illustration of, 212, 213.

  Proof-press, illustrated, 343.

  Proof-reader, author’s obligations to, 201.
    duties of a, 202, 207.
    friendly offices of, 201.
    qualifications of, 200-206.
    should be a compositor, 200.

  Proof-readers, caprices of, 207.

  Proof-sheets, alterations in, justly chargeable, 204, 205, 211.
    detained by authors, 205.
    errors in correcting, 203, 204.
    method of reading, 202, 203.
    plan for keeping account of, 203.
    remarks concerning, 202.
    should be read by two readers, 204.

  Proofs of engravings, how to take, 283.

  Proper names should be plainly written, 211.

  Prussian blue ink, 287.

  Publishers’ interference with the printers’ province, 134.

  Pulling, directions for, 260-262, 279.

  Punch, illustrated, 40.

  Punctuality indispensable in an apprentice, 123.

  Punctuation, amending of, should be confined to one reader, 204.
    and orthography to be uniform throughout a book, 202.
    points of later invention than printing, 61.
    variations in use of, 61.
    whims of authors, 61.
    Wilson’s Treatise on, 62, 65.


  Quadrates, circular, illustrated, and described, 78, 79.
    corner, illustrated, 306.
    directions for composing, 78, 79.
    hollow, illustrated, 77.

  Quantity of paper required to print a book of one thousand copies, 299.

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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

Press arbitrarily restricted, 235.
    history of invention of, 235-248.
    old common, 235.
    to print and number railroad tickets and coupons, 246.

  Presses—see machine-presses.
    how to oil, 292.

  Pressing sheets, mode of, 296, 297.

  Pressmen should examine every sheet as printed, 263.
    rules and remedies for, 262-264.
    should study fine specimens of printing, 277.

  Presswork, requisites for producing fine, 275-279.

  Prima, 203.

  Printed sheets, how treated, 295-297.

  Printers, how not to succeed in business, 139, 140.
    ironical rules for, 136, 137.

  Printer’s knife, illustrated, 210, 211.

  Printing, discovery of, 9-14.
    extension of, 13.
    in bronzes, 284, 285.
    in colours, 285-288.
    in gold, directions for, 284.
    introduced into America, 16.
    manner of discovery, 9-12.

  Printing-machine, type-revolving, 240-242.

  Printing-offices, rules to be observed in, 233, 234.

  Printing-press, amateur, 248.
    Bullock, 242-244.
    Campbell, 239, 246.
    Cottrell & Babcock, 239.
    Degener, 246, 247.
    Earl Stanhope’s, 236.
    earliest, 235.
    first set up in North America, 16.
    Frederick König’s, 238.
    Gally, 246.
    George Clymer’s, 236.
    George P. Gordon’s, 246, 247.
    invention of the, 235-248.
    Isaac Adams’s, 237.
    Job, 246-248.
    Peter Smith’s, 237.
    Railroad-ticket, 246.
    Ramage’s, 236.
    Richard M. Hoe’s, 239-242.
    Ruggles, 246.
    Samuel Rust’s, 237.
    Walter, 244.
    Wells, 246.
    Willem Jansen Blaeu’s, 235.

  Proof-marks, explanation of, 214, 215.
    illustration of, 212, 213.

  Proof-press, illustrated, 343.

  Proof-reader, author’s obligations to, 201.
    duties of a, 202, 207.
    friendly offices of, 201.
    qualifications of, 200-206.
    should be a compositor, 200.

  Proof-readers, caprices of, 207.

  Proof-sheets, alterations in, justly chargeable, 204, 205, 211.
    detained by authors, 205.
    errors in correcting, 203, 204.
    method of reading, 202, 203.
    plan for keeping account of, 203.
    remarks concerning, 202.
    should be read by two readers, 204.

  Proofs of engravings, how to take, 283.

  Proper names should be plainly written, 211.

  Prussian blue ink, 287.

  Publishers’ interference with the printers’ province, 134.

  Pulling, directions for, 260-262, 279.

  Punch, illustrated, 40.

  Punctuality indispensable in an apprentice, 123.

  Punctuation, amending of, should be confined to one reader, 204.
    and orthography to be uniform throughout a book, 202.
    points of later invention than printing, 61.
    variations in use of, 61.
    whims of authors, 61.
    Wilson’s Treatise on, 62, 65.


  Quadrates, circular, illustrated, and described, 78, 79.
    corner, illustrated, 306.
    directions for composing, 78, 79.
    hollow, illustrated, 77.

  Quantity of paper required to print a book of one thousand copies, 299.

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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