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Personal Impressions : The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth Harris (2005, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGodine Publisher, David R.

ISBN-101567922686

ISBN-139781567922684

eBay Product ID (ePID)30768095

Product Key Features

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePersonal Impressions : the Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America

SubjectPublishing, United States / 19th Century, Machinery

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

AuthorElizabeth Harris

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight30.4 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width11.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal681.62

SynopsisThis complete, definitive, and richly illustrated survey of small nineteenth-century printing presses, written by a former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, is the first history of these machines. There was, in those days, a small printing press for every purpose. And there were innumerable boys and men eager to make their fortunes by investing in one, printing for a local clientele, and, with luck, building a printing or publishing empire. Printing was the most widespread, and competitive business of nineteenth-century America. Every city had not only its big presses for printing catalogues, books, and newspapers, but also countless smaller presses for printing small jobs - the pamphlets, posters, handbills, stationery, cards, and tickets that gave the century so much of its color. Several of the names we now count as giants of the publishing industry: Scribner, Doubleday, George Houghton of Houghton Mifflin, and Donald Brace of Harcourt Brace started out not as publishers, but as small-job printers, running their own shops and working humble, everyday, manually-operated presses.

LC Classification NumberZ231.5.L5H377 2004