AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE ART WITH PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR CONDUCTING N. B. These two leaves are to be folded back to back, and fastened in the volume by the cut edges; the folded edge remaining outside and uncut. 49 49 237 Portrait of KOSTER BOWYER I. NICHOLS CASLON I. CASLON III. ... WILSON (of Glasgow) BULMER RITCHIE ... 310 324 326 328 348 354 362 609 611 Compositor's Frame, Cases, and other Apparatus for that department of Apparatus for casting Inking Rollers-Figures of the Rollers, Ink The Printing Press of the original construction Twenty-six figures of the various parts of the same The same Press with the application of the additional power The Initial Letter of the First Psalm in the Mentz Bible (in colours) 913 Devices of Early English Printers (four pages) Appendix 921 Scale of ms referred to in page 461 (engraved plate) 924 PREFACE. THIS WORK is partly formed upon the basis of the "PRINTER'S GRAMMAR" published some years ago by Mr. Stower. His, being the latest, was, so far, the book which contained the most information on the practice of Printing, up to the time of its publication. But the great alterations and improvements in conducting the various operations of this art, as well as the rapid increase of its members during the seventeen years since the appearance of that work, have rendered a new one on the subject highly requisite. The present volume is, therefore, intended not only to supply that of Mr. Stower, but to include the choicest portions of every prior publication which has appeared in our language relative to printing; with an account of all the improvements and novelties which have been introduced into the profession up to the present period. Although it is no part of my pretensions to offer to the experienced printer instructions for the conduct of his business; yet, besides the introduction of much original matter relative to the main subject; besides touching upon all the material points that lead from its dim origin to the state of perfection at which the art has in this age arrived (and all which, it is presumed, is calculated to interest every reader); it has certainly been a principal part of my endeavour, to inform the young practitioner, as well as the amateur of typography, as to the most approved modes of conducting the several branches that appertain to this important business, with whatever else my experience and observation could suggest b |