Authors and publishers: a manual of suggestions for beginners in literature, comprising a description of publishing methods and arrangements, directions for the preparation of mss. for the press, explanations of the details of book-manufacturing, instructions for proof-reading, specimens of typography, the text of the United States copyright law and information concerning international copyrights, together with general hints for authors
A practical manual of 1897 by George Haven Putnam and John Bishop Putnam, issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons in New York and London to explain publishing contracts, manuscript preparation, proofreading and book manufacture to first-time authors. The plates are mostly printers' ornaments and typographic specimens: symmetrical wood-engraved headpieces and tailpieces of foliate scrollwork, fleurons and strapwork, usable as rules, dividers and small spot ornaments.
