Personal Impressions : The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America Hardback
by Elizabeth Harris
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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 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. 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Publication Date:28/07/2005
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- ISBN:9781567922684
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Publication Date:28/07/2005
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- ISBN:9781567922684