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General Printing is a comprehensive guide to letterpress printing. With 300 photos and 140 illustrations, it offers detailed step-by-step visual instruction. Key topics include: handsetting type, taking proofs, mitering rules, locking up a form, adding packing and make-ready, feeding a platen press, advanced composition, design, typography, and tricks of the trade. "The best all-around introductory book for traditional letterpress printing, this manual is profusely illustrated with detailed and useful photographs and should occupy a prominent place on the shelf of every letterpress printer. It will serve as the next best thing to an apprenticeship at the feet of a master printer, and is certain to be used as a handy reference throughout your printing journey." --David S. Rose, Introduction to Letterpress Printing

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Book category Books in English Language Language: reference & general Writing & editing guides

• Full title: General Printing
• Author: Pitkin, Charles, W.
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780978588144
• ISBN: 9780978588144
• ID: 07428371
• Publisher: Liber Apertus
• Weight: 524 g
• Dimensions: 281 × 210 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2006

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