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The Building of a Book

by Frederick H. Hitchcock

A book of 1906 in which experts describe, one chapter each, every stage of making a book, from the author’s manuscript to the bookseller’s counter. Hitchcock edited it for the trade. It is the library’s only manual for its own contents.

The librarian
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 5 hr 55 min
Where to find it
On the Archive shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #23754. In the public domain in the United States.

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