| Title: |
The Printer’s Price-Book, Containing the Master Printer’s Charges to the Trade for Printing Works of Various Descriptions, Sizes, Types and Pages; Also, a New, Easy, and Correct Method of Casting off Manuscript and other Copy, Exemplified in Specimen Pages of Different Sizes and Types... |
| Description: |
C. Cradock and W. Joy. 1814. First Edition, iv,446pp., 1 plate showing typographical marks (foxed), 32 page author text, 326 pages of type specimens from the foundry of Mr Thorne in Fan St, Aldersgate Street, with footnotes by the author, pp. 359-446 contain tables with the regular charges for printing works of the same size type length and width as the foregoing specimen pages, cont. boards, spine chipped, upper cover almost detached, uncut. A compendium of information on the early 19th-century printing trade: payment for compositors, master printers’ rates, typographical marks, casting off copy, type specimens, etc. This book is far scarcer than Stower’s earlier work ‘The Printer’s Grammar’ of 1808. |
