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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    fail to gratify every intelligent observer. Its use lias now become very general. The Steam Press, however, is chiefly applicable where large numbers, or great activity, to be there arranged, condensed, and fitted to their respective columns, by the sub-editors and those employed in what is called making up the Paper; while the Editor’s attention is more especially engaged in watching the pro- gress of events, and in furnishing on the moment those remarks which are to lie found in what is called the Leading Article. Thus the whole is in one day communi- cated, arranged, and printed; and by the same evening's post transmitted to the most distant parts of the Empire: a result which may well strike those who enter into the contemplation of the vast expenditure of effort and capital which are constantly employed for the purpose, with astonishment. In the completion of their Steam Printing Press alone, the Proprietors are said to have expended upwards of sixty thousand pounds. The daily sale of the paper is under- stood to be about ten thousand copies; and these, by means of the Steam Press, are printed off in the almost incredibly short space of about two hours and a half.* In a commendatory notice of the first edition of this little work in the Times Newspaper, the above account was extracted in proof of its general accuracy, with the exception of the estimated daily circulation of that. Paper, which is said to be much greater than as above stated.
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