Printing Presses - History & Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times
by: Moran, James

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 263 pages. 109 figures, 64 plates, bibliography. Pictorial endpapers. This is the best and most comprehensive work on printing presses and their history from the 15th century until about 1940. Among the presses detailed here are the wooden press, Stanhope, Columbian, Albion, bed and platen, jobbing platen, cylinder, type-revolving, and modern rotary presses. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the technology of printing. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.