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

Some of the founts, especially the larger Roman, are very unevenly and badly cast, but on the whole the presswork was carefully done.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Less than nine hundred copies were printed in July, 1855, in the printshop of Andrew H. Rome, 98 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn, the author assisting in the type composition and presswork.

From The Bibliography of Walt Whitman by Shay, Frank

The paper for quarter of a million copies will cost twelve hundred and fifty dollars, the presswork about five hundred dollars.

From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Bradford had not been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork.

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth