Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Scientific American: Book-making - The American Book Exchange.
Call Number
E Row 1/GC058/Normal/1870-1900
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc4f16cg94c
Publisher
New York : [s.n.], 1880/10/02.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1880
Extent
1 item ; sheet 39.2 x 26.5 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [illustrator]
Medium: Wood engravings
Depiction: Ten vignettes of various processes involved in the creation of books--Printing; Setting type by machine; Folding by machinery; Gathering; Folding by hand; Smashing; Embossing; Book sewing; Case making; Finishing.
Item description: Cover illustration.
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Magazine illustration—United States—19th century—Specimens
Books in art
Books industries and trade—United States—19th century—In art
Genre painting
Occupations—United States—19th century—In art
Printing presses—United States—In art
Publishers and publishing—United States—19th century—In art
Women printers—United States—19th century—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9c9dd610-32e1-4a70-b875-6d7b6b298d30/manifest