Alexander Thom
(1801–79) Printerfor the Post Office in Ireland (1824); for royal commissions in Ireland (1838); and of the Dublin Gazette (1851). With Dublin’s largest printing works from the 1840s, he ...
Children's Books
Andrea Immel1 Introduction2 Origins and development3 Children’s texts as printed books4 The MS book5 Defining the children’s book1 Introduction2 Origins and development3 Children’s texts as printed ...
composing machines
Mechanisms for rapid composition, usually from a keyboard (see 11). Although a design was patented in 1822 by William Church, for more than 50 years no machine could perform all ...
cylinder press
Printing machine in which the forme is borne on a flat bed under a paper-bearing cylinder, creating an impression where the two come into contact (see 11). The earliest cylinder ...
dressing
After type is hand-cast, the jet is broken off; the sort is planed to a uniform height, and the nick is made, if not already cast. The shoulders may also be planed (see 11).[...]
Essay 19 The Electronic Book
A book that has been digitized and is then sold to a customer via sending it over the Internet. Such books are either read on a computer or on an ereader.
Francis Joy
(1697–1795) Ulster printer and papermaker.He founded Belfast’s first newspaper, the Belfast News, in 1737. In 1740, he leased a paper mill in Ballymena, and two in Ballygrooby near Randalstown ...
Giambattista Bodoni
(1740–1813).Born in Saluzzo and trained in Rome, he raised the art of printing to new heights as printer to the Duke of Parma. He was influenced by the fine ...
grammars
As workbooks conceived to respond to practical demands, grammar books should be viewed within the context of schools and teaching methods. The pedagogical models transmitted from Graeco-Roman ...
incunabula
The early stages of the development of something; in particular, early printed books, especially those printed before 1501. The word comes from Latin, meaning literally ‘swaddling clothes’.
intaglio
[Ar]1 The process of cutting a design into the surface of a small hard stone or gem.2 The object so created, usually used as a seal or as a stone to be set in a ring.
italic
Of the sloping kind of typeface used especially for emphasis or distinction and in foreign words; (of handwriting) modelled on 16th-century Italian handwriting, typically cursive and sloping and with ...
Linotype
[from line o’ type]The Linotype machine sets and casts a solid line of hot-metal type (a slug). It was primarily used for composing newspapers and cheaper books, such as ...
McGuffey Readers
In 1834 or 1835, the Cincinnati publisher Winthrop B. Smith hired William Holmes McGuffey (1800–1873), professor of ancient languages at Miami University (Ohio), to prepare a graduated series of ...
Michael Henry Gill
(1794–1879) Dublin printer and publisher.Apprenticed to Dublin University Press in 1813, he was University Printer from 1842 to 1875. In 1855, he bought the publishing business of McGlashan, one ...
offset
An alternative term for counterproof; it is also used as an abbreviation for ‘offset lithography’.
Pamphlets
One or more printed sheets, stabbed or sewn together, containing a single essay, treatise, exposition, or other matter too short to make a book. From Lat. Pamphilus, the title of ...
paper
Not worth the paper it is written on of no value or validity despite having been written down.paper over the cracks use a temporary expedient, or to create a mere semblance of order. The phrase is a ...
quire
A twentieth part of a ream of paper. Since ream sizes typically varied between 480 and 520 sheets, this normally indicates 25 sheets.
rotary press
A printing machine using two cylinders, one carrying the printing surface, and the other supplying pressure (see 11). It met certain 19th-century needs for increased speed of production, especially ...
