Cowie's Printer's Pocket-Book and Manual

by George Cowie

 

COWIE'S

PRINTERS' POCKET-BOOK AND M A N U A L.

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Fourth Edition

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TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE.

 

 

COWIE'S PRINTER'S POCKET-BOOK
AND MANUAL,

CONTAINING
THE COMPOSITORS' AND PRESSMEN'S SCALE OF
PRICES,

AGREED UPON IN 1810 AND MODIFIED IN 1816:
THE NEWSMEN'S SCALE,

NUMEROUS VALUABLE TABLES;

ALL THE SCHEMES OF IMPOSITIONS
FROM FOLIO TO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTS
INCLUSIVE:

THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND SAXON ALPHABETS;
WITH

PLANS OF THE RESPECTIVE CASES ;
AN EXPLANATION OF MATHEMATICAL, ALGEBRAICAL,
PHYSICAL,
AND
ASTRONOMICAL SIGNS.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

A TABLE FOR GIVING OUT PAPER,
AND

AN USEFUL ABSTRACT OF THE VARIOUS ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
CONNECTED WITH THE TRADE.

ALSO,

A LIST OF MASTER PRINTERS,
ARRANGED ON A NEW PLAN, AND CORRECTED TO THE
PRESENT TIME.

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LONDON:
W. STRANGE, 21, PATERNOSTER ROW,

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Price 2s 6d.

 

 

CONTENTS.

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	PAGE.
Situation and Arrangement of a Printing Office	1
Rules and Regulations to be observed in a Printing Office	3
Compositors' Scale of Prices	6
Resolutions respecting Periodical publications	10
Table shewing the price of any number of letters from 16,000 to 100,000	11
Abstract of Compositors' Scale	12
Table shewing the price of any number of letters	13
Table shewing the price of any number of letters	14
Abstract of Newsmen's Scale	16
Of casting off copy	17
Plan of Compositors' Check Book	22
Companionships	23
Compositors' Scale for Imposition	26
Table of Signatures and Folios	30
Schemes of Impositions	31–60
Table shewing the number or thousands in a sheet of Eighteens, Twelves, Octavo, and Quarto, of various Sizes	61
Mathematical	65
Celestial and Astronomical Signs	67
Physical Signs and Abbreviations	68
Hebrew Alphabet	69
Greek and Saxon Alphabets	70
Plan of a common Hebrew case	71
——of a Hebrew upper and lower case	72, 73
——of a Greek upper and lower case	74, 75
Common upper and lower-case	76, 77
Improved Fount cases	78, 79
Pressmen's Scale	80
Table shewing the price of any number or Tokens from One to Twenty	82
Plan of a Press Book	83
Plan of a Book for checking Compositors' and Pressmen's Bills	84
Plan of a Job Book	85
Warehouse Book	86
Table shewing the quantity or paper to be given out for any job from 25 to 5,000	87
Abstract of Acts or Parliament	88
List of Master Printers	94