Printing on the Iron Handpress

Engineering & Transportation

Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel

Engineering

Oak Knoll Pr

Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress

two volume set on printing and printing presses

Science & Math

Technology

History

Americas

<p>Since it was first used by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press in 1891, the iron handpress has been preferred by a small group of European and American private press printers. This illustrated history of the iron handpress also includes precise techniques for printing with this press. In addition to detailed diagrams, the author describes every procedure a printer needs to know, from setting up a handpress studio to preparing books for the binder. The book should interest printing historians as well as amateur and professional printers.</p>

Computers & Technology

Graphics & Design

Printing on the Iron Handpress is the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject. Precise techniques for printing on the handpress are presented here in lucid, step-by-step procedures that Rummonds perfected over a period of almost twenty-five years at his celebrated Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia.In tandem with more than 400 detailed diagrams by George Laws, Rummonds describes every procedure a printer needs to know from setting up a handpress studio to preparing books for the binder. Printing historians, as well as amateur and professional printers, will be intrigued by the wealth of additional information on historical printing practices that Rummonds intersperses throughout his text.

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