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The American Printer: A Manual of Typography

by Thomas MacKellar

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  1. 1Preface to First Edition
  2. 2Contents
  3. 3The Song of the Printer
  4. 4Discovery of Printing
  5. 5Ancient Peculiarities
  6. 6Printing in America
  7. 7Type-Founding in Europe
  8. 8Type-Founding in America
  9. 9Stereotyping
  10. 10Electrotyping
  11. 11Lithography
  12. 12Engraving
  13. 13Photo-Engraving
  14. 14A Walk over Our Foundry
  15. 15Types
  16. 16Names and Sizes of Type
  17. 17Gradation of Types
  18. 18Point System of Type-Bodies
  19. 19A Bill of Pica
  20. 20A Fount of Type
  21. 21Leads
  22. 22Flowers and Borders
  23. 23Brass Rules
  24. 24Earliest Written Sounds
  25. 25Runic Alphabets
  26. 26Anglo-Saxon Alphabet
  27. 27German Alphabet
  28. 28Greek
  29. 29Plan of Greek Cases
  30. 30Hebrew
  31. 31Plans of Hebrew Cases — Russian Alphabet
  32. 32Music Type
  33. 33Music Composition
  34. 34Plan of Cases
  35. 35Modern Conveniences
  36. 36General Remarks
  37. 37Plan of Cases
  38. 38Position
  39. 39Laying Type
  40. 40Distributing
  41. 41Composing
  42. 42Hints Honoured in the Breach
  43. 43To the Apprentice
  44. 44To Beginners
  45. 45Imposition
  46. 46Tying Up Pages
  47. 47Laying Pages
  48. 48Making Up Furniture
  49. 49Making the Margin
  50. 50Locking Up Forms
  51. 51Memoranda
  52. 52Nomenclature of Sheets
  53. 53Proof-Reading
  54. 54Correcting in the Metal
  55. 55Typographical Marks Exemplified
  56. 56Table of Signatures
  57. 57General Duties
  58. 58Casting Off Copy
  59. 59Hurried Work
  60. 60Companionships
  61. 61Rules and Regulations to Be Observed in a Printing-Office
  62. 62History of the Press
  63. 63The Bullock Web Perfecting Press
  64. 64The Walter Perfecting Press
  65. 65The Hoe Perfecting Press
  66. 66Railroad-Ticket Printing and Numbering Press
  67. 67Job Presses
  68. 68Folding Machines
  69. 69Setting Up a Washington Press
  70. 70Setting Up the Roller-Stand
  71. 71Composition Rollers
  72. 72Covering Tympans
  73. 73Wetting Paper
  74. 74Blankets
  75. 75Making Ready a Form on a Hand-Press
  76. 76Pulling
  77. 77Rules and Remedies for Pressmen
  78. 78The Ley-Trough
  79. 79Making Ready on Cylinder Presses
  80. 80Fine Hand-Presswork
  81. 81Printing Wood-Cuts
  82. 82Card Printing
  83. 83Gold Printing
  84. 84Bronze Printing
  85. 85Printing in Colours
  86. 86How to Use Dry Colours
  87. 87How to Multiply Colours
  88. 88Contrast of Colours
  89. 89Oiling a Press
  90. 90How to Treat Wood Type
  91. 91The Warehouseman
  92. 92Giving Out Paper to Wet
  93. 93Hanging Up Paper to Dry
  94. 94Taking Down Sheets When Dry
  95. 95Filling in and Pressing Sheets
  96. 96Counting Out and Putting Away Sheets
  97. 97Standard Sizes of Machine-Made Paper
  98. 98Jobbing Facilities
  99. 99Useful Receipts
  100. 100Orthographical
  101. 101A or an before a Vowel or silent H
  102. 102O, or OH
  103. 103ABLE and IBLE
  104. 104IM or in, and EM or EN
  105. 105In and UN
  106. 106ISE and IZE
  107. 107Or and OUR
  108. 108SION and TION
  109. 109Farther and Further — PEAS and Pease
  110. 110The Omission of S in the Possessive Case
  111. 111Formation of the Plurals of Words compounded of a Noun and an Adjec…
  112. 112Pointing of Numbers, Weights, Measures, &c
  113. 113Derivation of English Words
  114. 114We subjoin some rules for spelling, adapted from Laidlaw’s American…
  115. 115Plurals of Nouns which change F or FE into VES
  116. 116Plurals of Nouns ending in F or FE which accept of S only in the Pl…
  117. 117Plurals of Nouns ending in Eau, Ieu, and OU
  118. 118How to Secure Copyrights
  119. 119The Metric System
  120. 120Metric Equivalents of English Measures and Weights
  121. 121Table for Reducing Pounds and Ounces to Kilograms — Technical Terms…
  122. 122Abbreviations
  123. 123Foreign Words and Phrases, with Translations
  124. 124Index

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