Printing Presses: History and Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times
by James Moran,
Published by University of California, Berkeley, 1973. First Printing. Gilt decorated titled cloth hardcover very good; 263 pages with index of presses at rear; Many illustrations. Contents: Introduction and acknowledgement 1. The beginning 2. Improving the wooden press 3. The Stanhope press 4. The Columbian press 5. The iron hand press after Stanhope and Clymer 6. The Albion press 7. Koenig and the cylinder machine 8. The bed and platen press 9. The first stages of the cylinder machine 10. The jobbing platen 11. The cylinder machine takes over 12. Rotary printing -- the background 13. The type-revolving machine and the development of the modern rotary 14. Reel-fed flatbeds and sheet-fed rotaries 15. The rotary press? final stages 16. Apotheosis deferred.