[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, allother inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling hasbeen maintained.]
THE BUILDING OF A BOOK
A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ARTICLES
WRITTEN BY EXPERTS IN THE VARIOUS
DEPARTMENTS OF BOOK MAKING AND DISTRIBUTING
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY THEODORE L. DE VINNE
EDITED BY
FREDERICK H. HITCHCOCK
Editor's arm.
THE GRAFTON PRESS
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1906,
By THE GRAFTON PRESS.
Published December, 1906.
Dedicated
  TO READERS AND LOVERS
  OF BOOKS THROUGHOUT
  THE COUNTRY
(p. vii)FOREWORD
"The Building of a Book" had its origin in the wish to give practical,non-technical information to readers and lovers of books. I hope itwill also be interesting and valuable to those persons who areactually engaged in book making and selling.
All of the contributors are experts in their respective departments,and hence write with authority. I am exceedingly grateful to them fortheir very generous efforts to make the book a success.
THE EDITOR.
(p. ix)ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction
          By Theodore L. De Vinne, of Theodore L.      De Vinne & Company, Printers, New York.
  • The Author
          By George W. Cable, Author of "Grandissimes,"      "The Cavalier," and other books. Resident of      Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • The Literary Agent
          By Paul R. Reynolds, Literary Agent, New York,      representing several English publishing houses and      American authors.
  • The Literary Adviser
          By Francis W. Halsey, formerly Editor of the      New York Times Saturday Review of Books, and      literary adviser for D. Appleton & Company. Now      literary adviser for Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York.
  • The Manufacturing Department
          By Lawton L. Walton, in charge of the      manufacturing department of The Macmillan Company,      Publishers, New York.
  • The Making of Type
          By L. Boyd Benton, Mechanical Manager of the      Jersey City factory of the American Type Founders'      Company.
  • Hand Composition and Electrotyping
          By J. Stearns Cushing, of J. S. Cushing &      Company, Norwood, Massachusetts, one of the three                             
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