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The One-pull press and printing on half-sheets

ByDavid Shaw Home Page 25 August 20149 December 2024

One of the first things fledging historical bibliographers are taught is to identify formats: take a sheet of paper and fold it once to give folio format, fold again to make a quarto gathering, and once again for an octavo. Then they need to know about chain lines, wire lines and where to find watermarks…

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