The story of a printing house : being a short account of the Strahans and Spottiswoodes (1912)
Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur, 1872-1961, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London : Spottiswoode · leaf 70
perfecting cylinder machine fromApplegath for £1200, and a foundry for£735. Writing of printing machinery, Mr.Hansard says: Mr. Spottiswoode, who has for some time had a steamengine and printing machine upon the construction first-mentioned in this chapter [i.e. cylindrical], has also(impelled by… … Andrew Spottiswoode 1787-1866From a painting by Thomas Phillips, R.A. THE STORY OF A PRINTING HOUSE rapidity. The impression is by a platen moving vertically;it has a self-acting tympan and frisket; and appeared tome doing at the rate of six or seven hundred per hour,one side, in excellent style of…
Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd · Printers · Printing
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