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
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
This innovation, designed to imitate the rubricated initials of the manuscripts, involved great technical difficulties in the presswork, and was not generally adopted.
From Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by John Rothwell Slater
It was a magnificently printed volume, exhibiting at the very foundation of the art a skill in presswork scarcely surpassed by any of Gutenberg's immediate successors.
From Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by John Rothwell Slater
Even when the printers had learnt how to print two folio pages at the same time the presswork remained very laborious.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
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