{"product_id":"personal-impressions-the-small-printing-press-in-nineteenth-century-america-9781567922684","title":"Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elizabeth Harris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 19th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis complete, definitive, and richly illustrated survey of small nineteenth-century printing presses, written by a former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, is the first history of these machines. There was, in those days, a small printing press for every purpose. And there were innumerable boys and men eager to make their fortunes by investing in one, printing for a local clientele, and, with luck, building a printing or publishing empire.\u003cbr\u003e Printing was the most widespread, and competitive business of nineteenth-century America. Every city had not only its big presses for printing catalogues, books, and newspapers, but also countless smaller presses for printing small jobs - the pamphlets, posters, handbills, stationery, cards, and tickets that gave the century so much of its color. Several of the names we now count as giants of the publishing industry: Scribner, Doubleday, George Houghton of Houghton Mifflin, and Donald Brace of Harcourt Brace started out not as publishers, but as small-job printers, running their own shops and working humble, everyday, manually-operated presses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. Godine Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47999816302743,"sku":"9781567922684","price":2115.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781567922684.webp?v=1783601826","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/personal-impressions-the-small-printing-press-in-nineteenth-century-america-9781567922684","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}