The printers' handbook of trade recipes, hints & suggestions relating to letterpress and lithographic printing, bookbinding stationery, engraving, etc. With many useful tables and an index

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Preface To The Enlarged And Classified Edition

HE compiler issues this Second Edition with a hope*

1 that it may prove as acceptable as at its first appearance. The facts that the first edition was soon exhausted, and continued inquiries were being made for the book, are the best excuse for its reappearance.

Much useful matter has been added, and an attempt has been made to classify it under the heads of departments or trades.

To have given more explicit acknowledgment would, perhaps, have been better, but, as intimated in the earlier preface, the same item is so frequently repeated in the different journals, and sometimes in a varying form, that it would have been difficult to have traced its origin. Owing to this repetition and variety in the mode of treatment, the reader’s indulgence is requested if the compiler has failed in a few instances to discriminate between these duplicate fugitive pieces.

In addition to the journals named in the original preface, he is indebted to the following : —

British Printer.

British Bookmaker.

Effective Advertiser.

Printing World.

INTRODUCTORY TO THE FIRST EDITION.

IN putting this book before the Trade, the compiler offers his apologies and tenders his thanks to the proprietors of the various technical journals, both English and foreign, from which he has culled the bulk of these recipes, etc. ; others are the result of his own practical experience. He trusts that this compilation — the result of many years’ collection — will be found useful alike to the master and to the workman, for he believes no such work is at present in existence. It is hoped it will be of service to all interested or engaged in the art of printing and its allied trades. The want of such a book has long been felt, for, owing to the fact that the information is spread over a vast number of sources and repeated over and over again in different journals, there has always been a difficulty in turning up any particular subject when required. Further, the compiler has not had the opportunity of verifying all the matter contained in this work, so in many instances it has been reproduced exactly as it appeared from time to time.

If the demand should warrant a new edition at some future date, the compiler may be able to extend its usefulness, and he will be obliged by any hints, suggestions, or additional information suitable for the work being sent to him personally at the Chiswick Press, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.

INTRODUCTORY .

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It is hoped the Index will be sufficient to find any particular subject, for it was found inconvenient to classify the multitude of items treated — at least for this initial edition.

Amongst others the compiler is indebted to the following English journals : —

Paper and Printing Trades Journal.

Printing Times and Lithographer.

Printing Trades’ Diary and Desk Book.

Press News.

Printers’ Register.

British and Colonial Printer and Stationer.