The author's printing and publishing assistant. Comprising explanations of the process of printing preparaion and calculation of manuscripts, choice of paper, type, binding, illustrations, publishing, advertising, &c, with an exemplification and description of the typographical marks used in the correction of the press / [Frederick Saunders].

  • Frederick Saunders
Date:
1840
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Credit: The author's printing and publishing assistant. Comprising explanations of the process of printing preparaion and calculation of manuscripts, choice of paper, type, binding, illustrations, publishing, advertising, &c, with an exemplification and description of the typographical marks used in the correction of the press / [Frederick Saunders]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Spaces, Points, &c. of which it is composed, have each to be selected, assembled, and again distributed singly; in doing which the greatest attention and accuracy are necessary. For the information of Authors not accus- tomed to Printing, it maybe proper to state that the printing of the body of a work is always first in order; the Title, Preface, Contents, &c. being uniformly deferred till the completion.* Thousand, which will explain why a full page or a smaller type is more expensive than a light or a larger. * From the labour required in setting the Type, it will be easily conceived that Printing must necessarily be a rather slow process: it is so generally, three or four sheets per week being usually considered tolerably good speed, allowing for the unavoidable impediments occasioned by the transmitting and correcting of Proofs, &c. On urgent oc- casions, however, much greater progress may be made, which is accomplished by dividing the Manuscript among a greater number of hands. The publishers of this little work have had a volume printed in the astonishingly short space of three days. It was a work by Sir Lytton Bulwer, and the effort was rendered necessary in consequence of the arrangements made for the Foreign Editions. Nearly one hundred workmen were employed in effecting it.
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