Printing presses: history and development from the fifteenth century to modern times

Contents

Introduction and acknowledgement -- The beginning -- Improving the wooden press -- The Stanhope press -- The Columbian press -- The iron hand press after Stanhope and Clymer -- The Albion press -- Koenig and the cylinder machine -- The bed and platen press -- The first stages of the cylinder machine -- The jobbing platen -- The cylinder machine takes over -- Rotary printing: the background -- The type-revolving machine and the development of the modern rotary -- Reel-fed flatbeds and sheet-fed rotaries -- The rotary press : final stages -- Apotheosis deferred -- Plates -- Appendix I. Miniature, 'toy', amateur and card presses -- Appendix II. The proof press.