General Printing: An Illustrated Guide to Letterpress Printing

General Printing is a comprehensive guide to letterpress printing. With 300 photos and 140 illustrations, it offers detailed step-by-step visual instruction. Key topics include: handsetting type, taking proofs, mitering rules, locking up a form, adding packing and make-ready, feeding the press, advanced composition, safety considerations for heavy machinery, tricks of the trade, and layout and design.

This edition was originally published in 1963, and has been out of print for many years. With the recent revival of interest in letterpress printing, this book’s popularity and scarcity has made it one of the top ten most sought out-of-print books of any kind for several years. It has now been reissued in an exact facsimile of the 1963 edition, with a new foreword by David S. Rose, a noted authority on letterpress and the history of printing. It also includes a new addendum page summarizing some of the most important current-day resources for letterpress printers.