The Printer's Manual

The Printer's Manual
Author: David Pankow
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2005
Genre: Printing
ISBN: 0975965107

As printing from movable type was perfected in the fifteenth century, the mysteries of its practice were guarded by a privileged few. The rapid spread of the new art depended on the reliable mechanism for transferring knowledge. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the pioneers of manufacturing technology and scientific inquiry were prying away at trade secrecy. This book shows the history of printing manuals from 1683 to the end of the nineteenth century, including some of the rarest in existence from the Cary Collection at Rochester institute of Technology.

Typographia

Typographia
Author: Thomas F. Adams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429621191

Published in 1981: Authors of early English and American printers's manuals casually appropriated text from their predecessors. The practice, common enough not to require explanation or acknowledgement ( much less apology), was documented by Lawrence C. Wroth in 1935. Citing borrowed passages and devising a literary family tree, Wroth measured the original work of typographical writers from Moxon to De Vinne, with much more praise for them but with less for those in between. The author who, whose Typographia is reprinted here, was found to be the worst and boldest of offenders.

American Encyclopedia of Printing

American Encyclopedia of Printing
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2022-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368135902

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Typographia

Typographia
Author: Thomas F. Adams
Publisher: Philadelphia : L. Johnson
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1857
Genre: Printing
ISBN: