Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 263 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [253]-254. Contents: Introduction and acknowledgement 1. The beginning 2. Improving the wooden press 3. The Stanhope press 4. The Columbian press 5. The iron hand press after Stanhope and Clymer 6. The Albion press 7. Koenig and the cylinder machine 8. The bed and platen press 9. The first stages of the cylinder machine 10. The jobbing platen 11. The cylinder machine takes over 12. Rotary printing -- the background 13. The type-revolving machine and the development of the modern rotary 14. Reel-fed flatbeds and sheet-fed rotaries 15. The rotary press? final stages 16. Apotheosis deferred. Subjects: Printing presses History. 1 Kg.

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Title: Printing presses : history and development from the fifteenth century to modern times / James Moran
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
Publication Date: 1978
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0520029046
ISBN 13: 9780520029040
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: First Edition.
Weight: 1 kilogram

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First edition. An essential book for the student of the printing history. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spine slightly faded. 263 pages with 108 illustrations in the text and 64 plates. cloth.. 4to..

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