hand-press

During the hand-press period, when type was reset each time a press was used, this term was synonymous with edition.

Book Terminology: A to Z 2009

During the hand-press period, when type was reset each time a press was used, this term was synonymous with edition.

2009 July 14 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

Between her and her hand-press on the mountain clearing and him ordering his wine in the hotel was a difference of seven dollars and seventy-eight cents.

Chapter IX 2010

Striding clumsily but efficiently, like a laboring-man, she led him into the largest building, where Daylight saw a hand-press and all the paraphernalia on a small scale for the making of wine.

Chapter IX 2010

"The Consortium of European Research Libraries has announced that OCLC Online Computer Library Center will host the CERL Hand Press Book Database, a collection of more than 2 million catalog records from libraries representing items of European printing from the 15th century through the 1830s, the hand-press period, integrated into one database."

January 2007 2007

Pepler opened his printing-office at Ditchling in 1915 with a fount of Caslon Old Face type and a Stanhope hand-press of the year 1790.

H.D.C. Pepler Part One 2008

From his magician's bag he produces an antiquated hand-press of stippled grey metal which in my out-of-body state I identify as Aunt Imelda's orange squeezer.

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

From his magician's bag he produces an antiquated hand-press of stippled grey metal which in my out-of-body state I identify as Aunt Imelda's orange squeezer.

the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

Poor Davidsen, a tall, thin man in ragged clothes, the father of five children, the owner of two cases of type and a hand-press, a pauper thus, a louse.

The Road Leads On 2003

Sand-cement blocks may be molded by hand or with a simple hand-press.

Chapter 6 1977