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The printer's grammar: : containing a concise history of the origin of printing; also, an examination of ... the different sizes of types ... With directions to authors, compilers, &c. How to prepare copy, and to correct their own proofs. Chiefly collected from Smith's edition. To which are added directions for pressmen, &c

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1787.
Call number: 244246
Creator: Smith, John (active 1755)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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The printer's grammar: : wherein are exhibited, examined, and explained, the superficies, gradation, and properties of the different sorts and sizes of metal types, ... sundry alphabets, ... figures of mathematical, astronomical, musical, and physical signs; ... With directions to authors, compilers, &c. ... By John Smith
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Instructions for amateur printers : containing hints on the selection of press and type; directions for setting or composing type, making ink rollers, &c. with an explanation of technical terms used by printers
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The printer's price-book : containing the master printer's charges to the trade for printing works of various descriptions, sizes, types, and pages ; also, a new, easy, and correct method of casting off manuscript and other copy, exemplified in specimen pages of different sizes and types : to which is prefixed some account of the nature and business of reading proof sheets for the press, with the typographical marks used for this purpose
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The Printers' manual : containing the compositors' scale of prices, agreed upon in 1810, and modified in 1816, an abstract of the newsmen's scale, a table showing the price of any number of letters, from 16,000 to 100,000, numerous schemes of impositions, the Hebrew, Greek, and Saxon alphabets, and instructions for young compositors: also, the pressmen's scale of prices, a table showing the quantity of paper to be given out for jobs of various sizes, from twenty-five to five thousand, a list of master printers, arranged on a new plan &c. &c. &c
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John Smith: : the printer's grammar, 1755

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