Author: Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel

Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2004 Published at $150.00

ISBN: 9781584560883; 1584560886

Format/Condition: Two new hardcover books with dust jackets are in near fine condition, 1152 pages, 480 illustrations.

Description: The two volume Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is encyclopedic in its examination 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, 1683, and culminating with John Southward’s Practical Printing, 1900 – Gabriel Rummonds has distilled over two hundred years of printers’ wisdom into this very readable and important work on iron handpresses and how they were used in the nineteenth century.

This remarkable work represents over twenty years of research and scholarship by one of the most celebrated fine-press printers of the twentieth century. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photographs, and the most comprehensive annotated bibliography on the subject ever printed, this monumental, two-volume work stands alone in the annals of printing history. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is a worthy companion to Rummonds’ 1998 classic, Printing on the Iron Handpress.