About the Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... Advertising, 32. Authors' corrections, 5. Autotype, 22. Back margin, 16. Bastard title, 36. Binding, 23. Books, sizes of, 19. Bound books, 24. Calendered papers, 15, Capitals, 2. Case work, 23. Caslon, William, 10. Casting off copy, 32. Casting off printed matter, 34-Certificate of number, 29. Character of types, 9. Clarendon type, 12. Copper engravings, 21. Copy, 2. Copyright, 30. Corrections, 5, 6, 7, 8. Correctors of the press, 9. Cost of paper, 37. Cut edges, 19. Deckle edge, 14. Duodecimo, 18. Edition de luxe, 16, 17. Egyptian type, 12. Electrotyping, 35. Extract matter, 3. Extras, 33. Fly-title, 36. Folio, 18. Footnotes, 3. Fore-edge margin, 16. Full-bound books, 24. Glossary, 39. Gratis copies, 32. Half-bound books, 24. Half profit system, 27. Half titles, 36. Handmade paper, 14. Head margin, 17. Illustrations, 21. Index, 3, 4. Insurance, 32. Intaglio, 21. Inverted commas, 3. Italic, 2. Japanese paper, 16. Laid paper, 14. Large paper, sizes of, 18. Leading of types, II. Leaves, 2. Ligature letters, 9. Lithography, 22. Machine-made paper, 14, 15. Manuscript, 1. Margins, 16. Modern faced type, 9. Moulding, 34. Oftavo, 18. Octodecimo, 18. Old faced type, 9. Pages, 2. Paper, 14. Paper stereotyping, 35. Papier mache moulds, 34. Paragraphs, 2. Plaster stereotyping, 35. Plates, 25. Preliminary matter, 3. Presentation copies, 32. Press criticisms, 31. Printers' readers, 9. Printers' reams, 37. Privately printed books, 28. Process blocks, 21, 36. Proof-readers' marks, 7, 8. Public libraries, 31. Publishers' binding, 23. Publishers' readers, 26. Publishing, 26. Publishing on commission, 27. euarter bound books, 24. uarto, 18. Reams of paper, 37. References, 3. Registration, 3o. Review copies, 31. Revived old style type, 9. Roxburghe, 24. Sextodecimo, 18. Si...