presswork

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There are, for example, chapters about paper, typography and layout, typesetting and presswork, bindings, endpapers and dust jackets.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2020

It was a magnificently printed volume, exhibiting at the very foundation of the art a skill in presswork scarcely surpassed by any of Gutenberg's immediate successors.

From Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by Slater, John Rothwell

The typesetting is all done by hand, and the type distributed immediately upon completion of presswork.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

Some urgent presswork had kept him in a contiguous room.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

Nor do these books bear out the Bishop of London's statement as to Thomas being ignorant of printing; on the contrary, the presswork was such as could only have been done by a skilled workman.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)