Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-century AmericaDavid R. Godine Publisher, 2004 - 200 trang "Printing was the most widespread, and competitive business of nineteenth-century America. Every city had not only its big presses for printing catalogues, books, and newspapers, but also countless smaller presses for printing small jobs - the pamphlets, posters, handbills, stationery, cards, and tickets that gave the century so much of its color. Several of the names we now count as giants of the publishing industry: Scribner, Doubleday, George Houghton of Houghton Mifflin, and Donald Brace of Harcourt Brace started out not as publishers but as small-job printers, running their own shops and working humble, everyday, manually operated presses. This complete, definitive, and richly illustrated survey of small nineteenth-century printing presses, written by a former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, is the first history of these lovely, useful, and prodigiously varied machines. There was, in those days, a small printing press for every purpose. And there were innumerable boys and men eager to make their fortunes by investing in one, printing for a local clientele, and, with luck, building a printing or publishing empire. What the desktop computer is to today, these small iron workhorses were to the nineteenth century, and this book, which catalogues, describes, and illustrates over a hundred small printing presses and their makers, giving machine specifications as well as patent information, is a mine of previously undocumented printing history. No one seriously interested in the story of American printing can afford to be without it."--Publisher's description. |
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Preface | 7 |
A note on the rail presses | 27 |
Kelseys Own Story | 60 |
CATALOGUE OF SMALL PRESSES 63 | 172 |
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Thuật ngữ và cụm từ thông dụng
Adams Adana advertising amateur assigned Baltimore Baltimorean bed and platen billhead Boston Card File card press Catalogue of Nineteenth Century Printing Presses chase Chicago City Directory Cottage Press crank Daughaday David David Watson Dorman Dunkerly Excelsior flier foot lever frame Frank Leslie's Weekly frisket Golding Gorham hand inker hand lever hand press hand stamp hand-inking Harper's Weekly Hoe Company Hoe's Illustrated impression ink plate inking rollers Job Press Joseph Watson Kelsey Collection Kelsey's later lever press Lowe Press manufacturers Massachusetts Meriden Model in NMAH-DGA Model Press N.Y. Patent Nineteenth Century Printing NMAH-AC Novelty press outfit paper Patent Rights Penfield Philadelphia Platen Jobber Price List printers Printing Press printing wheel proof press rail press Ralph Green Rotary press rubber stamp self-inking press sheet side lever Sigwalt sizes small press Snow sold Swem Library Transfers of Patent treadle type bed Type Foundry Victor York Young America Press