Title & Author:

Practical printing and binding : a complete guide to the latest developments in all branches of the printer's craft / edited by Harry Whetton.

Publication:

London : Odhams Press, 1946.

Description:

448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Letterpress printing / Chapters 1 to 8 by A. Monkmani, Chapters 9 to 12 by V. S. Ganderton. Type in the making ; Composing room equipment ; Mechanical type-setting ; Bookworking ; Imposition ; Proofs and proofing ; Commercial printing ; The reading department ; Presses, platens and wharfedales ; Two-revolution machines ; Making-ready and running problems ; Letterpress rotary developments -- Stereotyping and electrotyping / by W. H. Church. Modern plate-making materials -- Lithography / by Albert Kirk. The process and its progress ; Principles of lithography ; Versatility of lithography ; Lithographic rollers ; Transferring methods ; Plate-making by offset duplication ; Photo-lithography ; Offset machines and offset printing -- Stationery / by Eric Royle. Engraving and relief stamping -- Pictorial reproduction / by A. E. Dent. Process engraving ; Setting up a small process plant -- Photogravure / by Walter L. Hayes. Gravure processes and their development -- Music printing / by Hubert J. Foss. Methods of score reproduction -- Warehouse practice / by J. A. Esler. Storage and issue of stock -- Paper-making / by R.H. Clapperton. Printing papers and their manufacture -- Printing inks / by Dr. R. F. Bowles. Inks for all the processes -- Costing and estimating / by F. C. Potter. Counting the cost -- Bookbinding / by A. J. Vaughan. Letterpress binding ; Stationery binding -- The printer's engineer / by A. G. Humphreys. Installation and maintenance of machinery -- Appendix: Technical education in the printing trade.

Subject:

Printing.
Bookbinding.
Documents, Printing of.
Bookbinding methods
Imprimerie.
Reliure manuelle.
printing processes.
printing (process)
hand binding.

Added entries:

Whetton, Harry.
Whetton, Harry,

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 23748
Call No.: 0006805 Z244 REF; ID:88-B10178
Status: Available