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
Her flight was never very high, but it was always progressive, and her regulation of her pen by the precise rules that govern presswork was entitled to distinct praise.
From Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" by Various
The presswork and ink are always proportionately better in these copies, and the price of them is enhanced according to their beauty and rarity.
From Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs by Henry H. Harper
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 John Rothwell Slater
At my first admission into this printing-house I took to working at press, imagining I felt a want of the bodily exercise I had been used to in America, where presswork is mixed with composing.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
