presswork
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There are, for example, chapters about paper, typography and layout, typesetting and presswork, bindings, endpapers and dust jackets.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2020
Yet newspapers have improved in presswork, and the typesetting machines have removed the evil of worn type.
From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman
Bradford had been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork.
From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Franklin
In closing this Foreword, the printer desires to emphasize the fact that the typesetting and presswork of this book are entirely his own work.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
It is fitting, then, that the same publishers should issue the book now under our hand, a fine specimen of the printer's art in paper, presswork, binding, and illustrations.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
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