Nineteenth-century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress [2 VOL SET] - Hardcover

Rummonds, Richard Gabriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712348670 ISBN 13: 9780712348676

Publisher: British Library, 2004

Synopsis

Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is encyclopedic in its examination of printing techniques from the late-seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century. Using selected readings from printers' manuals - beginning with Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John Southward's Practical Printing, 1900 - Gabriel Rummonds has distilled over two hundred years of printers' wisdom into this very readable and important work on iron handpresses and how they were used in the nineteenth century. This remarkable work represents over twenty years of research and scholarship by one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photographs, and the most comprehensive annotated bibliography on the subject ever printed, this monumental, two-volume work stands alone in the annals of printing history. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is a worthy companion to Rummonds' 1998 classic, Printing on the Iron Handpress

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Nineteenth-Century Printing Practice and the Iron Handpress is encyclopedic in its examination of early printing techniques from the early fifteenth-century, wooden presses to their culmination with the nineteenth-century iron presses. Gabriel Rummonds, one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century, has distilled a half millenium's worth of printer's wisdom and manuals into this very readable and important history of the iron handpress and the intrepid men who worked it. This remarkable work represents over twenty years of research and scholarship. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photographs, and the most comprehensive bibliography of on the subject ever printed, this two-volume, monumental work stands alone in the annals of printing history

About this edition

• Publisher: British Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0712348670
• ISBN 13: 9780712348676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1100