The Printerís Price-Book, Containing the Master Printerís Charges to the Trade for Printing Works of Various Descriptions, Sizes, Types and Pages; Also, a New, Easy, and Correct Method of Casting off Manuscript and other Copy, Exemplified in Specimen Pages of Different Sizes and Types.
The Printerís Price-Book, Containing the Master Printerís Charges to the Trade for Printing Works of Various Descriptions, Sizes, Types and Pages; Also, a New, Easy, and Correct Method of Casting off Manuscript and other Copy, Exemplified in Specimen Pages of Different Sizes and Types.
Metodi di Pagamento
- PayPal
- Carta di Credito
- Bonifico Bancario
- Pubblica amministrazione
- Carta del Docente
Dettagli
- Autore
- Stower (C.)
- Editori
- London: Printed by the Editor, Hackney, C. Cradock and W. Joy,, 1814.
- Soggetto
- PRINTING TYPE SPECIMENS PRINTERS BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS TECHNOLOGY, TYPOGRAPHY
Descrizione
First edition, 8vo (223 x 136 mm), [2, advert], iv, 446pp., WITHOUT the plate showing typographical marks, text moderately browned in places, 32 page author text followed by 326 pages of specimens of type in different sizes, from the foundry of Mr Thorne in Fan Street, Aldersgate Street, with footnotes by the author, pp. 359-446 contain tables with the regular charges for printing works of the same size type length and width as the foregoing specimen pages, later boards, signs of a label having been removed from base of spine, uncut. A compendium of information on the early nineteenth-century printing trade: payment for compositors, master printersí rates, typographical marks, casting off copy, type specimens, etc. This book is far scarcer than Stowerís earlier work The Printerís Grammar of 1808.
