A Practical Treatise upon Modern Printing Machinery and Letterpress Printing

Published in 1888, this book gives a detailed picture of current printing technology, of interest to printers and industrial archaeologists.

Frederick J. F. Wilson (Author), Douglas Grey (Author)

9781108021548, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 October 2010

470 pages, 136 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.59 kg

First published in 1888, A Practical Treatise upon Modern Printing Machinery and Letterpress Printing by Wilson and Grey remains an important work for those interested in the Victorian mechanisation of printing. They list, with illustrations, all the different machines in use in the printing trade, in England and abroad. They outline the development of printing from the early hand presses, and discuss in detail the strengths and weaknesses of the different machines then in use. Information is provided on manufacturers and specifications of the multitude of machinery available for all stages of the printing and publishing process. The book contains valuable information on the development of colour printing, and covers book and newspaper printing as well as the needs of small jobbing firms. It will be of interest to historians of printing and publishing, printers, engineers and industrial archaeologists.

Part I: 1. Historical
2. Various motions and mechanical contrivances, peculiar to or used in printing machines
3. One-sided stopping-cylinder machines
4. The tumbler or main machine
5. The two-colour machines
6. The two-feeder single-cylinder machine
7. The double platen
8. Perfecting machines
9. The Anglo-French machine
Part II: 10. Modern newspaper printing machines
11. The Walter rotary machine
12. Hoe's rotary machine
13. The Victory rotary
14. The Marinoni rotary machine
15. The Foster rotary web (type, stereo, and bill) machines
16. The Bullock press - The Northumbrian press - Farmer's web printing machine
17. The Wharfedale rotary machine - The Whitefriars - The Jules Derriey rotary - a rotary hand-press
18. The 'Illustrated London News' and the Ingram machine - Anglo-American rotary - on stereotyping for rotary machines
19. On book-work machines
Part III: 20. Practical printing - making ready
21. On the cutting of the overlay
22. Rollers - their treatment and manufacture
23. Paper: its treatment - storage - wetting - rolling - rolling machines
24. Colour printing
25. Small jobbing machines
26. The warehouse
27. On erecting and driving machines
28. Power.

Subject Areas: Publishing industry & book trade [KNTP]