The American Printer: A Manual of Typography

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Author

MacKellar, Thomas, 1812-1899

Title

The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Printing industry -- United States

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 56817

Release Date

March 23, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.The Song of the Printer. — The American Printer.
5. 5.RISE AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING. — DISCOVERY OF PRINTING. — ANCIENT PECULIARITIES. — PRINTING IN AMERICA. — TYPE-FOUNDING IN EUROPE. — TYPE-FOUNDING IN AMERICA. — STEREOTYPING. — ELECTROTYPING. — LITHOGRAPHY. — ENGRAVING. — PHOTO-ENGRAVING. — A WALK OVER OUR FOUNDRY.
6. 6.IMPLEMENTS OR TOOLS OF THE ART. — TYPES. — ROMAN LETTER. — ITALIC LETTER. — BLACK LETTER. — SAXON CHARACTERS. — NAMES AND SIZES OF TYPE. — GRADATION OF TYPES. — POINT SYSTEM OF TYPE-BODIES. — A BILL OF PICA. — A FOUNT OF TYPE. — CAPITALS. — SMALL CAPITALS. — POINTS. — APOSTROPHE. — HYPHEN. — PARENTHESIS AND BRACKET. — REFERENCES. — ACCENTED LETTERS. — NUMERAL LETTERS. — ARITHMETICAL FIGURES. — SIGNS. — METAL RULES OR DASHES. — BRACES. — SPACES. — TWO-LINE LETTERS — QUADRATES. — QUOTATIONS. — LEADS. — FLOWERS AND BORDERS. — BRASS RULES. — EARLIEST WRITTEN SOUNDS. — HIEROGLYPHIC ALPHABET. — RUNIC ALPHABETS. — ANGLO-SAXON ALPHABET. — GERMAN ALPHABET. — B (B) and V (V). — C (C) and E (E). — G (G) and S (S). — K (K), N (N), R (R). — M (M) and W (W). — b (b) and h (h). — f (f) and ſ (s). — m (m) and w (w). — r (r) and x (x). — v (v) and y (y). — GREEK. — THE GREEK ALPHABET. — ACCENTS AND ASPIRATES. — PLAN OF GREEK CASES. — HEBREW. — THE HEBREW ALPHABET. — LETTERS THAT HAVE A LIKENESS TO OTHERS. — ACCENTS. — PLANS OF HEBREW CASES. — RUSSIAN ALPHABET. — MUSIC TYPE. — MUSIC COMPOSITION. — PLAN OF CASES. — MODERN CONVENIENCES.
7. 7.THE ART OF COMPOSITION. — GENERAL REMARKS. — PLAN OF CASES. — POSITION. — LAYING TYPE. — DISTRIBUTING. — COMPOSING. — SPACING. — JUSTIFYING. — HEAD-LINES. — NOTES. — BLANKING. — PARAGRAPHS. — INDEXES. — TITLES. — DEDICATIONS. — CONTENTS. — PREFACES. — SIGNATURING. — ERRATA. — HINTS HONOURED IN THE BREACH. — TO THE APPRENTICE. — TO BEGINNERS. — HOW NOT TO SUCCEED.
8. 8.IMPOSING, OR PREPARING FOR PRESS. — IMPOSITION — TYING UP PAGES. — LAYING PAGES. — MAKING UP FURNITURE. — MAKING THE MARGIN. — LOCKING UP FORMS. — MEMORANDA. — NOMENCLATURE OF SHEETS.
9. 9.PROOF-READING AND CORRECTING. — PROOF-READING. — CORRECTING IN THE METAL. — TYPOGRAPHICAL MARKS EXEMPLIFIED. — EXPLANATION OF THE CORRECTIONS. — TABLE OF SIGNATURES.
10. 10.THE FOREMAN OR OVERSEER. — GENERAL DUTIES. — CASTING OFF COPY. — HURRIED WORK. — COMPANIONSHIPS. — TAKING COPY. — MAKING UP. — MAKING UP OF LETTER. — MAKING UP FURNITURE. — IMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING LETTER. — CORRECTING, ETC. — TRANSPOSITION OF PAGES. — RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN A PRINTING-OFFICE.
11. 11.THE PRESS AND ITS WORKING. — HISTORY OF THE PRESS. — THE BULLOCK WEB PERFECTING PRESS. — THE WALTER PERFECTING PRESS. — THE HOE PERFECTING PRESS. — RAILROAD-TICKET PRINTING AND NUMBERING PRESS. — JOB PRESSES. — FOLDING MACHINES. — SETTING UP A WASHINGTON PRESS. — SETTING UP THE ROLLER-STAND. — COMPOSITION ROLLERS. — COVERING TYMPANS. — WETTING PAPER. — BLANKETS. — MAKING READY A FORM ON A HAND-PRESS. — PULLING. — RULES AND REMEDIES FOR PRESSMEN. — THE LEY-TROUGH. — MAKING READY ON CYLINDER PRESSES. — FINE HAND-PRESSWORK. — PRINTING WOOD-CUTS. — CARD PRINTING — GOLD PRINTING. — BRONZE PRINTING — PRINTING IN COLOURS. — HOW TO USE DRY COLOURS. — HOW TO MULTIPLY COLOURS. — CONTRAST OF COLOURS. — OILING A PRESS. — HOW TO TREAT WOOD TYPE.
12. 12.WAREHOUSE DEPARTMENT. — THE WAREHOUSEMAN. — GIVING OUT PAPER TO WET. — HANGING UP PAPER TO DRY. — TAKING DOWN SHEETS WHEN DRY. — FILLING IN AND PRESSING SHEETS. — COUNTING OUT AND PUTTING AWAY SHEETS. — STANDARD SIZES OF MACHINE-MADE PAPER. — PRINTING PAPER. — WRITING PAPER. — A TABLE
13. 13.JOBBING FACILITIES.
14. 14.USEFUL RECEIPTS. [22]
15. 15.ORTHOGRAPHICAL. — A or AN before a Vowel or silent H . — O , or OH . — ABLE and IBLE . — IM or IN , and EM or EN . — IN and UN . — ISE and IZE . — OR and OUR . — SION and TION . — EXAMPLES. — IRREGULARS. — FARTHER and FURTHER . — PEAS and PEASE . — The Omission of S in the Possessive Case. — Formation of the Plurals of Words compounded of a Noun and an Adjective. — Pointing of Numbers, Weights, Measures, &c. — Derivation of English Words. — We subjoin some rules for spelling, adapted from Laidlaw’s American Pronouncing Dictionary . [26] — RULE I. — RULE II. — RULE III. — RULE IV. — RULE V. — RULE VI. — RULE VII. — RULE VIII. — RULE IX. — RULE X. — RULE XI. — RULE XII. — RULE XIII. — RULE XIV. — RULE XV. — RULE XVI. — RULE XVII. — RULE XVIII. — Plurals of Nouns which change F or FE into VES . — Plurals of Nouns ending in F or FE which accept of S only in the Plural. — Plurals of Nouns ending in EAU , IEU , and OU .
16. 16.HOW TO SECURE COPYRIGHTS.
17. 17.THE METRIC SYSTEM. — Metric Equivalents of English Measures and Weights. — LONG MEASURE. — SQUARE MEASURE. — LIQUID MEASURE. — DRY MEASURE. — AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. — TROY WEIGHT. — Table for Reducing Pounds and Ounces to Kilograms.
18. 18.TECHNICAL TERMS OF THE CRAFT.
19. 19.ABBREVIATIONS.
20. 20.FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES, WITH TRANSLATIONS.
21. 21.INDEX.
22. 22.FOOTNOTES

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