Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books (1904)
Jacobi, Charles Thomas · London : G. Bell & Sons · leaf 220
, even when in full 190 HAND-PRESS WORK 191 swing, and after all the making-ready has been finished.Small numbers, such as for large-paper editions, and somefew works in colours, are usually relegated to this depart-ment. The preparatory stages in getting a forme ready toprint are more accessible… … FlG. 104. THE LEVER OF THE STANHOPE TRESS. the same standard as his fellow worker the compositor, butit is requisite that he should be intelligent, and capable ofexercising sound practical sense in the performance of hisduties. These essentials are only acquired in a propermanner by long…
