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

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 Slater, John Rothwell

A copy of the play was sent on to Charles to enable him to prepare the presswork for it, and it was the first play manuscript he ever read.

From Charles Frohman: Manager and Man by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

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

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