During the hand-press period, when type was reset each time a press was used, this term was synonymous with edition. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Between her and her hand-press on the mountain clearing and him ordering his wine in the hotel was a difference of seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Striding clumsily but efficiently, like a laboring-man, she led him into the largest building, where Daylight saw a hand-press and all the paraphernalia on a small scale for the making of wine. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The Consortium of European Research Libraries has announced that OCLC Online Computer Library Center will host the CERL Hand Press Book Database, a collection of more than 2 million catalog records from libraries representing items of European printing from the 15th century through the 1830s, the hand-press period, integrated into one database." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Pepler opened his printing-office at Ditchling in 1915 with a fount of Caslon Old Face type and a Stanhope hand-press of the year 1790. ❋ Unknown (2008)
From his magician's bag he produces an antiquated hand-press of stippled grey metal which in my out-of-body state I identify as Aunt Imelda's orange squeezer. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)
Poor Davidsen, a tall, thin man in ragged clothes, the father of five children, the owner of two cases of type and a hand-press, a pauper thus, a louse. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sand-cement blocks may be molded by hand or with a simple hand-press. ❋ Unknown (1977)
He likewise uses the hand-press proofs of the picture as a guide in mixing his inks. ❋ Various (N/A)
Whatever the name may be, -- Collotype, Artotype, Albertype, Phototype, or Carbon-gravure, -- the principle is the same; an impression is made in printer's ink from a photo-chemically produced design on a gelatine surface, either on the hand-press or on a power cylinder press similar to that used in lithographic printing. ❋ Various (N/A)
Proofs of these twine-bound pages are taken on a hand-press, passed to the reviser for comparison with the galley-proofs returned by the author, and if the latter has expressed a wish to see a second revise of the proofs, they are again sent to him. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Foreman of the type-setters makes copies of these on narrow strips of paper with a hand-press, and sends them down to the ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
In August, 1864, a small printing office, with a hand-press, was attached to the rooms; the ladies learned how to set type and work the press, and issued weekly bulletins to their auxiliaries to encourage and stimulate their efforts. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
I can't imagine how anyone could ever make a lineotype, but the type and the hand-press are easy enough, and if you can make paper, we may yet live to read our 'published works.' ❋ Ellis Meredith (N/A)
ESTC serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies. ❋ Marie Lebert (N/A)
The machines print from 3,500 to 4,000 sheets per hour _upon both sides_, a rate of production from twenty-eight to thirty-two times as great as was possible upon the old-fashioned hand-press, which was capable of printing not more than 250 copies upon _one side_ in the same time. ❋ Various (N/A)
Everywhere the primitive hand-press had to make way for the steam printing machine; but even this machine, since its advent in London in 1810, has itself undergone so many changes that little else remains of König's invention than the principle of the cylinder. ❋ Various (N/A)
The page thus held together is quite secure against being "pied" if proper care is exercised in handling it, and it can be put on a hand-press and excellent proofs readily taken from it. ❋ Various (N/A)
