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 handbook on publishing methods, manuscript preparation, book manufacture and copyright law, written by George Haven and John Bishop Putnam and issued by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York and London in 1897 for first-time authors. Its plates are printers' typographic ornaments — headpieces, tailpieces and fleurons in solid black line — usable as rules, dividers and title-page furniture.
