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The art of printing

Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond), 1812-1882 · 1871 · Nashville, Tenn., A.H. Redford, Agent, for the M.E. Church, South · 3 pictures

A short history and description of printing by Thomas O. Summers, issued in 1871 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, publishing house in Nashville for general and Sunday-school readers. Wood engravings show hand presses worked by aproned pressmen, a steam engine with a large flywheel, and cylinder machinery, useful as printing-trade equipment diagrams and figures at work.

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