Front matter
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Transcriber’s Note
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Page numbering replicates that in the original: pp. i-xiv in Roman, followed by page 9 sqq. in Arabic numerals. No pages are missing or duplicated.
Further notes appear at the end.
THE American Printer:
A Manual of Typography,
CONTAINING
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGING ALL DEPARTMENTS OF A PRINTING OFFICE,
AS WELL AS
Complete Instructions for Apprentices:
WITH SEVERAL USEFUL TABLES, NUMEROUS SCHEMES FOR IMPOSING FORMS IN EVERY VARIETY, HINTS TO AUTHORS, ETC.
By Thomas MacKellar, Ph. D.
FIAT LUX.
PHILADELPHIA: MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN FOUNDRY. 1893.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by L. Johnson & Company, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
Eighteenth Edition—Revised and Enlarged.
ELECTROTYPED BY MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN FOUNDRY, PHILADELPHIA.
EIGHTEENTH EDITION.
This edition of the American Printer, while essentially the same as the previous one, contains some additional matter.
Philadelphia, March, 1893.
