... their origins as craft-based typographical societies to the complex structures incorporating task-based and plant-specific lines of demarcation that had emerged by the early 1900s. Given their common use of letterpress, mass-produced magazines and newspapers displayed a tendency towards technological...

... respect for the knowledge, power, and authority gained from reading books, especially the Confucian Classics. In the nineteenth century, all three nations began the transition from woodblock printing of books to their production via lithography, moveable type, and letterpress, and, today, Internet...

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... poem all aimed to reveal the work of printing both letterpress and copperplates, at the common and the rolling press. Both text and image work to make visible the labour of printing and, by codifying it, aim to set this work within a structure of trades which was at once more open, more respectable...

... is examined in the context of the technological shift from letterpress printing to high-speed offset-lithography, which took place chiefly in the 1970s. While the compositors’ experience of technological change has received some attention in labour history and sociology, the trade of press-machining has been...

...This chapter explores changes in technology and work flows affecting periodical print production, beginning with the introduction of iron presses around 1800.While the fundamental processes of letterpress printing (a relief process) remained in place, many details were mechanised and new techniques...

... drill Figure 8.22 OUP Fire Brigade with its first petrol-driven engines, 1925 Figure 8.23 Gardeners’ Challenge Festival The Press employed a variety of different machines for printing, but they fell broadly into two categories, as characterized by Charles Batey: letterpress and lithography...

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...This chapter discusses the history of commercial printing and book culture in China during the late imperial period. It suggests that two developments in the nineteenth century signalled the beginnings of a sea change in book culture. These are the lithographic and letterpress printing from...