The printers' assistant

containing a sketch of the history of printing, an essay on punctuation, various typographical tables, select schemes of difficult impositions, the Greek and Hebrew alphabets, instructions to compose clean & quick, scale of prices for compositors and pressmen, advice to young men commencing business, abstracts of acts relative to printers, directions for making black, red, and blue inks, and composition balls, a table showing the quantitiy of paper to be given out for jobs, from 50 to 10,000 number, present price of materials, and a list of the masters, letter founders, printers' smiths and joiners, ink makers, wood engravers, type cutters &c

by William Mason