A01=Thomas F. Adams
Author_Thomas F. Adams
Category=JBCT
compositor skills
Compositor's Business
Compositor’s Business
Crimson
Disengaged
Dotted Rules
Double Letters
early English printing manuals
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Fine Ink
Follow
Fore Stay
Great Primer
Hair Space
historical printing methods
Italic Capitals
Letter Press Printer
letterpress techniques
nineteenth-century printer's manuals
Oblique Inclination
Plaster Of Paris
pressroom operations
Printer's Instructor
Printer’s Instructor
printing history
rampant plagiarism
Register Sheets
Roman Lower Case Numerals
Short Cross
Side Ways
Slip Sheets
Sponge
Thinnest Space
typefounding process
typographical writers
Vice Versa
Waste Sheet
Wooden Cylinder
Product details
- ISBN 9780367152093
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 130 x 175mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Published in 1981: Authors of early English and American printers's manuals casually appropriated text from their predecessors. The practice, common enough not to require explanation or acknowledgement ( much less apology), was documented by Lawrence C. Wroth in 1935. Citing borrowed passages and devising a literary family tree, Wroth measured the original work of typographical writers from Moxon to De Vinne, with much more praise for them but with less for those in between. The author who, whose Typographia is reprinted here, was found to be the worst and boldest of offenders.
