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
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
The typesetting is all done by hand, and the type distributed immediately upon completion of presswork.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Stansby's presswork was uniformly good, and in this respect alone he may be ranked among the best printers of his time.
From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
