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: The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variet

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RISE AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING 13-48

IMPLEMENTS OR TOOLS OF THE ART 49-120

Types--Roman letter--Italic--Black--Anglo-Saxon--Names and sizes of type--Gradations of type--Point System of Type bodies--A Bill of Pica--A Fount of type--Capitals--Small capitals--Points--Apostrophe--Hyphen--Parenthesis and Bracket--References--Accents--Numerals--Arabic figures--Old-style figures--Cancelled figures--Fractions--Signs--Metal rules or dashes--Braces--Spaces--Two-line letters--Quadrates--Quotations--Labour-saving quotation furniture--Hollow quadrates--Circular quadrates--Labour-saving curvatures--Leads--Flowers and borders--Brass rule--Brass labour-saving rule--Improved labour-saving rule case--Earliest written sounds--Hieroglyphic alphabet--Runic alphabets--Anglo-Saxon alphabet and plan of cases--German alphabet and plan of cases--Greek alphabet and plan of cases--Hebrew alphabet and plan of cases--Russian alphabet--Comparative table of bodies of Music type--Music composition--Music cases--Modern conveniences.

COMPOSITION 121-140

General remarks--Requisites in an apprentice--American cases--Position of a compositor--Laying type--Distributing-- Composing--Spacing--Justifying--Head-lines--Notes--Blanking-- Paragraphs--Indexes--Titles--Dedications--Contents--Prefaces-- Signaturing--Errata--Ironical rules--Advice to apprentices--Ironical rules for beginners in business.

IMPOSITION 141-199

General remarks--Tying up pages--Laying pages--Making up furniture--Making the margin--Locking up forms--Memoranda--Nomenclature of sheets--Schemes for imposing, from folio to 128mo.

PROOF-READING AND CORRECTING 200-217

Qualifications of a reader--Should be a printer--Indebtedness of authors to proof-readers--Process of reading--Proof record--Errors made in correcting--Two readers desirable--Punctuation--Alterations in proof--Stower's remarks--Revise--Correcting in the metal--Capricious alterations--Proper method of correcting--Over-running--Hints to authors--Table of proof-marks, with explanations--Table of signatures.

THE FOREMAN OR OVERSEER 218-234

General duties--Treatment of compositors--Punctuality--Morning duties--Knowledge of all materials on hand--Order--Overseeing work--Regulating takes of copy--Prompt reading and correcting--Memorandum--Press-book--Press duties--Warehouse--Casting off copy--Managing hurried work--Companionships--Taking copy--Making up--Dividing the letter--Making up furniture--Imposing and distributing letter--Correcting--Transposition of pages--Rules to be observed in a printing-office.

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