Nineteenth-century printing practices and the iron handpress : with selected readings / Richard-Gabriel Rummonds ; foreword by Stephen O. Saxe.

Examines of printing techniques from the late-seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century. Using selected readings from printers' manuals - beginning with Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John Southward's Practical Printing, 1900.