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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

Quarto, scheme for imposing, 153, 154.
    the broad way for music, 153, 154.
    two half-sheets, together, 155, 156.
    half-sheet, the broad way, 155, 156.

  Quires, cassie, of what made up, 294.

  Quitting work, precautions to be used by the pressmen in, 264.

  Quoins, proper form of, 147, 148.
    how to unlock, 148.
    various patents, 306.

  Quotation furniture, illustrated, 77.
    marks, 62.

  Quotations, broad and narrow, 76.


  Railroad-ticket printing-machine, 246.

  Ramage, Adam, 236.

  Reading-boy, 202.

  Receipts, various, 311-317.

  Red ink, how to make, 286, 288.

  References, use of, 66, 67.

  Register, how to make, 260.

  Regulations for a printing-office, 233, 234.

  Reprints from standard authors not to vary from the original, 202.

  Revise, 206.

  Revise sheet necessary, 260.

  Riding, how to prevent, 286.

  Rittenhouse, William, the first paper-maker in America, 17.

  Roller-boy, 262.

  Roller-handle, how to lie when used, 251.
    how to check, 251.

  Roller, hard, best for fine work, 267.
    soft, required for posters and old type, 267.

  Roller-mould, directions for using, 252.

  Roller-stand, how to set up, 250, 251.
    illustrated, 251.

  Rollers, composition, how made, 252-254, 311, 312.
    for hand-presses, how to keep, 278.
    hand-press, 252.
    precautions in using, 252.
    to be adapted to style of work, 267.
    when in working order, 253.

  Roman letter, invention of, 49.
    deserving general adoption, 50.

  Ronaldson, James, type-founder in Philadelphia, 19.
    Richard, type-founder in Philadelphia, 20.

  Rosetta stone, discovery of, 83.

  Royal and half paper, size of, 298.

  Royal paper, size of, 298.

  Ruggles’s job presses, 246.
    card cutter, illustrated, 309.

  Rule, brass, 80.
    labour-saving, illustrated, 81.
    plan of case for, 82.

  Rules and remedies for pressmen, 262-264.
    for beginners in business, ironical, 139, 140.
    for compositors, ironical, 136, 137.
    for perforating, illustrated, 308.

  Runes, earliest alphabets of the Teutons and Goths, 86.

  Runic alphabets, 86-90.
    inscription on Bewcastle cross, 89.

  Russian alphabet, 112, 113.

  Rust, Samuel, inventor of the Washington press, 237.


  Saur (or Sower), Christopher, first American type-founder, 19.
    issues the _Germantown Chronicle_ in 1739, 19.
    prints the first quarto Bible, 19.

  Scarlet ink, how to make, 288.

  Schœffer, Peter, inventor of type-founding, 13, 14.

  Semicolon, invented by Aldo Manuccio, 61.
    use of, 62.

  Senefelder, Alois, discoverer of lithography, 27.

  Setting fly on a cylinder press, 274.
    off, how to prevent ink from, 279.
    tapes, process of, 274.
    up a Washington press, 250.
    up a roller-stand, 250, 251.

  Seventy-twos, scheme for imposing half-sheet of, 197.

  Shades of ink, how to produce, 288.

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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

Quarto, scheme for imposing, 153, 154.
    the broad way for music, 153, 154.
    two half-sheets, together, 155, 156.
    half-sheet, the broad way, 155, 156.

  Quires, cassie, of what made up, 294.

  Quitting work, precautions to be used by the pressmen in, 264.

  Quoins, proper form of, 147, 148.
    how to unlock, 148.
    various patents, 306.

  Quotation furniture, illustrated, 77.
    marks, 62.

  Quotations, broad and narrow, 76.


  Railroad-ticket printing-machine, 246.

  Ramage, Adam, 236.

  Reading-boy, 202.

  Receipts, various, 311-317.

  Red ink, how to make, 286, 288.

  References, use of, 66, 67.

  Register, how to make, 260.

  Regulations for a printing-office, 233, 234.

  Reprints from standard authors not to vary from the original, 202.

  Revise, 206.

  Revise sheet necessary, 260.

  Riding, how to prevent, 286.

  Rittenhouse, William, the first paper-maker in America, 17.

  Roller-boy, 262.

  Roller-handle, how to lie when used, 251.
    how to check, 251.

  Roller, hard, best for fine work, 267.
    soft, required for posters and old type, 267.

  Roller-mould, directions for using, 252.

  Roller-stand, how to set up, 250, 251.
    illustrated, 251.

  Rollers, composition, how made, 252-254, 311, 312.
    for hand-presses, how to keep, 278.
    hand-press, 252.
    precautions in using, 252.
    to be adapted to style of work, 267.
    when in working order, 253.

  Roman letter, invention of, 49.
    deserving general adoption, 50.

  Ronaldson, James, type-founder in Philadelphia, 19.
    Richard, type-founder in Philadelphia, 20.

  Rosetta stone, discovery of, 83.

  Royal and half paper, size of, 298.

  Royal paper, size of, 298.

  Ruggles’s job presses, 246.
    card cutter, illustrated, 309.

  Rule, brass, 80.
    labour-saving, illustrated, 81.
    plan of case for, 82.

  Rules and remedies for pressmen, 262-264.
    for beginners in business, ironical, 139, 140.
    for compositors, ironical, 136, 137.
    for perforating, illustrated, 308.

  Runes, earliest alphabets of the Teutons and Goths, 86.

  Runic alphabets, 86-90.
    inscription on Bewcastle cross, 89.

  Russian alphabet, 112, 113.

  Rust, Samuel, inventor of the Washington press, 237.


  Saur (or Sower), Christopher, first American type-founder, 19.
    issues the _Germantown Chronicle_ in 1739, 19.
    prints the first quarto Bible, 19.

  Scarlet ink, how to make, 288.

  Schœffer, Peter, inventor of type-founding, 13, 14.

  Semicolon, invented by Aldo Manuccio, 61.
    use of, 62.

  Senefelder, Alois, discoverer of lithography, 27.

  Setting fly on a cylinder press, 274.
    off, how to prevent ink from, 279.
    tapes, process of, 274.
    up a Washington press, 250.
    up a roller-stand, 250, 251.

  Seventy-twos, scheme for imposing half-sheet of, 197.

  Shades of ink, how to produce, 288.

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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