{"product_id":"personal-impressions-elizabeth-harris-9781567922684","title":"Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1567922686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567922684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 11.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Elizabeth Harris","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46767192539391,"sku":"9781567922684","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c15c825-f8af-4a1d-b24b-5103188f4694.jpg?v=1744169103","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/personal-impressions-elizabeth-harris-9781567922684","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}