The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing

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                    THE BUILDING OF A BOOK


                A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ARTICLES
              WRITTEN BY EXPERTS IN THE VARIOUS
          DEPARTMENTS OF BOOK MAKING AND DISTRIBUTING


                    WITH AN INTRODUCTION
                   BY THEODORE L. DE VINNE


                          EDITED BY
                   FREDERICK H. HITCHCOCK


                [Illustration: Editor's arm.]




                     THE GRAFTON PRESS
                PUBLISHERS       NEW YORK




                     Copyright, 1906,
                  By THE GRAFTON PRESS.
                Published December, 1906.




                       DEDICATED
                TO READERS AND LOVERS
                 OF BOOKS THROUGHOUT
                      THE COUNTRY




FOREWORD


"The Building of a Book" had its origin in the wish to give practical,
non-technical information to readers and lovers of books. I hope it
will also be interesting and valuable to those persons who are
actually engaged in book making and selling.

All of the contributors are experts in their respective departments,
and hence write with authority. I am exceedingly grateful to them for
their very generous efforts to make the book a success.

                                        THE EDITOR.




ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS


                                                                  Page

    INTRODUCTION                                                     1
        By THEODORE L. DE VINNE, of Theodore L.
        De Vinne & Company, Printers, New York.

    THE AUTHOR                                                       4
        By GEORGE W. CABLE, Author of "Grandissimes,"
        "The Cavalier," and other books. Resident of
        Northampton, Massachusetts.

    THE LITERARY AGENT                                               9
        By PAUL R. REYNOLDS, Literary Agent, New York,
        representing several English publishing houses and
        American authors.

    THE LITERARY ADVISER                                            16
        By FRANCIS W. HALSEY, formerly Editor of the
        _New York Times Saturday Review of Books_, and
        literary adviser for D. Appleton & Company. Now
        literary adviser for Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York.

    THE MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT                                    25
        By LAWTON L. WALTON, in charge of the
        manufacturing department of The Macmillan Company,
        Publishers, New York.

    THE MAKING OF TYPE                                              31
        By L. BOYD BENTON, Mechanical Manager of the
        Jersey City factory of the American Type Founders'
        Company.

    HAND COMPOSITION AND ELECTROTYPING                              41
        By J. STEARNS CUSHING, of J. S. Cushing &
        Company, Norwood, Massachusetts, one of the three
        concerns forming the Norwood Press.

    COMPOSITION BY THE LINOTYPE MACHINE                             53
        By FREDERICK J. WARBURTON, Treasurer of the
        Mergenthaler Linotype Machine Company.

    COMPOSITION BY THE MONOTYPE MACHINE                             66
        By PAUL NATHAN, a member of Wood & Nathan,
        New York, selling agents for the Lanston Monotype
        Machine.

    PROOF-READING                                                   77
        By GEORGE L. MILLER, with the Charles Francis
        Press, New York.

    PAPER MAKING                                                    89
        By HERBERT W. MASON, of S. D. Warren & Company,
        Paper Makers, Boston, Massachusetts.

    PRESSWORK                                                       99
        By WALTER J. BERWICK, of Berwick & Smith
        Company, Norwood, Massachusetts, one of the three
        concerns constituting the Norwood Press.

    THE PRINTING PRESS                                             112
        By OTTO L. RAABE, with R. Hoe & Company, New
        York, Printing Press Manufacturers.

    PRINTING INK                                                   139
        By JAMES A. ULLMAN, of Sigmund Ullman Company,
        Ink Makers, New York.

    THE PRINTER'S ROLLER                                           144
        By ALBERT S. BURLINGHAM, President of the
        National Roller Company, New York.

    THE ILLUSTRATOR                                                154
        By CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, Artist, New York.

    HALF-TONE, LINE, AND COLOR PLATES                              164
        By EMLYN M. GILL, President of the Gill
        Engraving Company, New York.

    THE WAX PROCESS                                                176
        By ROBERT D.