Printer's Progress, a Comparative Survey of the Craft of Printing 1851-1951

by Charles Rosner

Printer's Progress 1851-1951 differs in its aims from the various scholarly and practical books systematically surveying the history of printing or conveying technical knowledge of one or several methods of printing or allied trades. It was felt that 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain, in commemoration of the Great Exhibition held in London in 1851, would prove a welcome date to draw a comparison between the work and means, and the economic and social standing of the printer of today and of his colleague of a hundred years ago. It is an attempt to provide those who are interested in the optical and intellectual aspects of the products of printing with faithful replicas of the printed matter of 1851 and with typical illustrations revealing the versatility in design and reproduction media of the printer of our day.

The book is bound in a navy blue cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine. There is sunning on the spine. There is some page-tanning throughout. The book is generously filled with examples of printing including some tipped-in pieces of ephemera. Foxed.

Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: None
Publisher: London: Sylvan Press
Publication Date:  1951
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: (xxiv), 125pp
Size: 4to