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

In this way it would be possible to secure classes of from 60 to 100 boys each for such trades as composition and presswork.

From Wage Earning and Education by Lutz, Rufus Rolla

The types used in each case were those of Anton Koberger, D�rer’s godfather, and the effect of the artist’s personal superintendence, which the colophons attest, is seen in the excellence of the presswork.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Some urgent presswork had kept him in a contiguous room.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

At my first admission into this printing-house I took to working at press, imagining I felt a want of the bodily exercise I had been used to in America, where presswork is mixed with composing.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various