The Building of a Book / A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing

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FOREWORD

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION By Theodore L. De Vinne

THE AUTHOR By George W. Cable

THE LITERARY AGENT By Paul R. Reynolds

THE LITERARY ADVISER By Francis W. Halsey

THE MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT By Lawton L. Walton

THE MAKING OF TYPE By L. Boyd Benton

HAND COMPOSITION AND ELECTROTYPING By J. Stearns Cushing

COMPOSITION BY THE LINOTYPE MACHINE By Frederick J. Warburton

COMPOSITION BY THE MONOTYPE MACHINE By Paul Nathan

PROOF-READING By George L. Miller

PAPER MAKING By Herbert W. Mason

PRESSWORK By Walter J. Berwick

THE PRINTING PRESS By Otto L. Raabe

PRINTING INK By James A. Ullman

THE PRINTER'S ROLLER By Albert S. Burlingham

THE ILLUSTRATOR By Charles D. Williams

HALF-TONE, LINE, AND COLOR PLATES By Emlyn M. Gill

THE WAX PROCESS By Robert D. Servoss

MAKING INTAGLIO PLATES By Elmer Latham

PRINTING INTAGLIO PLATES By George W. H. Ritchie

THE GELATINE PROCESS By Emil Jacobi

LITHOGRAPHY By Charles Wilhelms

COVER DESIGNING By Amy Richards

THE COVER STAMPS By George Becker

BOOK CLOTHS By Henry P. Kendall

BOOK LEATHERS By Ellery C. Bartlett

THE BINDING By Jesse Fellowes Tapley

SPECIAL BINDINGS By Henry Blackwell

COPYRIGHTING By Frederick H. Hitchcock

PUBLICITY By Vivian Burnett

REVIEWING AND CRITICISING By Walter Littlefield

THE TRAVELLING SALESMAN By Harry A. Thompson

SELLING AT WHOLESALE By Joseph E. Bray

SELLING AT RETAIL By Warren Snyder

SELLING BY SUBSCRIPTION By Charles S. Olcott

SELLING AT AUCTION By John Anderson, Jr.

SELECTING FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY By Arthur E. Bostwick

RARE AND SECOND-HAND BOOKS By Charles E. Goodspeed .

[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.]

THE BUILDING OF A BOOK

A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ARTICLES
WRITTEN BY EXPERTS IN THE VARIOUS
DEPARTMENTS OF BOOK MAKING AND DISTRIBUTING

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY THEODORE L. DE VINNE

EDITED BY
FREDERICK H. HITCHCOCK

THE GRAFTON PRESS
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1906,
By THE GRAFTON PRESS.
Published December, 1906.

Dedicated
TO READERS AND LOVERS
OF BOOKS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY


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