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The art of printing (1871)

Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond), 1812-1882 · Nashville, Tenn., A.H. Redford, Agent, for the M.E. Church, South · leaf 192

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APPENDIX. 189 These presses are worked by steam-power. Anengraving of the engine that drives the pressesin our Publishing House may be seen on thepreceding page. These presses are widely removed from thehand press, which is, however, still in use forsmall jobs. The old-fashioned hand press… … It may not be altogether useless to spreadbefore our readers a list of the signs used byproofreaders in correcting the press—which, bythe way, is a business which requires no smallliterary attainment as well as great care and atten-tion. On the succeeding pages we give a speci-men of proof-sheet,…

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