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The Project Gutenberg e-Book of The Building of a Book; Editor: F. H. Hitchcock

by Frederick H. Hitchcock

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Editor
Hitchcock, Frederick H. (Frederick Hills), 1867-1928
Title
The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
Credits
Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
Z: Bibliography, Library science
Subject
Book industries and trade
Category
Text
eBook-No.
23754
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23754
Release Date
December 6, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BUILDING OF A BOOK
  2. 2.FOREWORD
  3. 3.ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS — THE BUILDING OF A BOOK
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION By Theodore L. De Vinne
  5. 5.THE AUTHOR By George W. Cable
  6. 6.THE LITERARY AGENT By Paul R. Reynolds
  7. 7.THE LITERARY ADVISER By Francis W. Halsey
  8. 8.THE MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT By Lawton L. Walton
  9. 9.THE MAKING OF TYPE By L. Boyd Benton
  10. 10.HAND COMPOSITION AND ELECTROTYPING By J. Stearns Cushing
  11. 11.COMPOSITION BY THE LINOTYPE MACHINE By Frederick J. Warburton
  12. 12.COMPOSITION BY THE MONOTYPE MACHINE By Paul Nathan
  13. 13.PROOF-READING By George L. Miller
  14. 14.PAPER MAKING By Herbert W. Mason
  15. 15.PRESSWORK By Walter J. Berwick
  16. 16.THE PRINTING PRESS By Otto L. Raabe
  17. 17.PRINTING INK By James A. Ullman
  18. 18.THE PRINTER'S ROLLER By Albert S. Burlingham
  19. 19.THE ILLUSTRATOR By Charles D. Williams
  20. 20.HALF-TONE, LINE, AND COLOR PLATES By Emlyn M. Gill
  21. 21.THE WAX PROCESS By Robert D. Servoss
  22. 22.MAKING INTAGLIO PLATES By Elmer Latham
  23. 23.PRINTING INTAGLIO PLATES By George W. H. Ritchie
  24. 24.THE GELATINE PROCESS By Emil Jacobi
  25. 25.LITHOGRAPHY By Charles Wilhelms
  26. 26.COVER DESIGNING By Amy Richards
  27. 27.THE COVER STAMPS By George Becker
  28. 28.BOOK CLOTHS By Henry P. Kendall
  29. 29.BOOK LEATHERS By Ellery C. Bartlett
  30. 30.THE BINDING By Jesse Fellowes Tapley
  31. 31.SPECIAL BINDINGS By Henry Blackwell
  32. 32.COPYRIGHTING By Frederick H. Hitchcock
  33. 33.PUBLICITY By Vivian Burnett
  34. 34.REVIEWING AND CRITICISING By Walter Littlefield
  35. 35.THE TRAVELLING SALESMAN By Harry A. Thompson
  36. 36.SELLING AT WHOLESALE By Joseph E. Bray
  37. 37.SELLING AT RETAIL By Warren Snyder
  38. 38.SELLING BY SUBSCRIPTION By Charles S. Olcott
  39. 39.SELLING AT AUCTION By John Anderson, Jr.
  40. 40.SELECTING FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY By Arthur E. Bostwick
  41. 41.RARE AND SECOND-HAND BOOKS By Charles E. Goodspeed .

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