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Order Nr. 34756 AMERICAN IRON HAND PRESSES. Stephen O. Saxe

AMERICAN IRON HAND PRESSES.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1992 (BUT 1995). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 108, (2) pages. Paperback edition. Second printing. For 350 years from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the methods and equipment of printing changed remarkably little. Decade after decade, the essential techniques of punch, matrix, type mould and handset type remained unaltered. The printing press continued with perhaps only one improvement of consequence. Then the nineteenth century..... READ MORE

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                 Contents 

              INTRODUCTION                  vii 
              DEDICATORY NOTE              xiii 
Chapter 1     THE STANHOPE PRESS              3 
Chapter 2     THE COLUMBIAN PRESS             9 
Chapter 3     THE RUTHVEN PRESS              17 
Chapter 4     THE WELLS PRESS                23 
Chapter 5     THE STANSBURY PRESS            29 
Chapter 6     THE SMITH PRESS                37 
Chapter 7     THE WASHINGTON PRESS           43 
Chapter 8     THE ALBION PRESS               51 
Chapter 9     THE UNION PRESS                57 
Chapter 10    THE TUFTS PRESS                63 
Chapter 11    THE PHILADELPHIA AND 
              BRONSTRUP PRESSES              69 
Chapter 12    THE FOSTER PRESS               75 
Chapter 13    THE RUGGLES PRESS              83 
Chapter 14    OTHER PRESSES                  89 
              APPENDICES                     97 
              BIBLIOGRAPHY                  101 
              INDEX                         103