| Show book making haking in the united states it Is somewhat surprising to know that the number of houses now actually engaged in fit the publish publishing im of books not including periodical periodic air aig amounts amount to more than about of these arg ara engaged in fit new york boston Philadel pl la ia und jud baltimore BIt imore the balance ba latice being divided between cincinnati bafs Baff bassalo buffalo dlo alo auburn louisville chicago st louis and aud a few other places I 1 there here are more than three thousand booksellers who dispense tile ilia publications of these besides six or aevin sevin thousand apothecaries grocers and hardware dealers who n ho connect literature liter aturo with i ith drug molasses mons mo lisses ses and nails nalls ine lne best printing in america is is probably now done dona in cambridge Cain oain brid 9 e the best cloth cioth binding in boston and tile tiie best calf and morocco in new york and arid philadelphia in these tw two 0 latter sl styles iea lea we are as yet vet a long distance from liay hardev dev the pride of london flis ilis finish is supreme su preme premi there li 13 nothing between it and per perfection books have multiplied to such an extent in our country that it mies wies paper mills with 2000 engines in fit constant con stant operation to supply the I 1 printers lers who work day and night endeavoring to I 1 keep their engagements with pub lher these tire tireless tinli loss iss mills nulls produced pounds of paper the past year which immense supply was 0 g id for about A pound and a quarter of ras razs are ire required for a pound of paper and pounds were i fore consumed consul tied this way last fast year the costi cost of manufacturing a twelve months supply of or I 1 paper piper tor lor the ilia united slats stats slat s aside aido from labor an and ggs r gs is confuted co at some soine idea of the stock required to launch a I 1 lri 0 pular work may be gathered from bles Ales sips sirs I 1 lr L una u ig na nans us ledger these thes gentlemen report that when copies 0 of imam mr M two recent volumes went flying hll hii hil oil abroad from paternoster i row no less than reams of paper 6 tons of paste pasteboard bord and ards yards of calico veere viere ere vI loved up mot alost mo t of the large publishing houses now stereotype everything ever eier tiling they tiley intend to print the tile electrotyping process is largely employed emp loed and an experiment exit is is now being ben hen g made in fit boston of which we shall hear more at some future time which if successful will vi lii ill decrease the expense of stere i ig g about one third we hive lately heard that alliata a machine it i in inmee use is in new york for typesetting type setting aud and that the second volume of air nin irvings life lire of washington hashii agton was wis prepared for press by its aid 1 four 11 undred hundred year years sago ago a single book of gossiping fiction was sold before the palace batrin gate in the I 1 french capital ci pital for fifteen hundred dollars the bame same e ume ime amount of matter contained cont nned in this expensive volume the harpers now supply for twenty five cents costly book books however ar are not out of hiou hion sh biou ion lon for we are all glad to know that seventeen I 1 hundred rs li vc re already be ben bern bero o ob imd ined lor for P lofessor splendid new ise lse the harper the largest of our publishing ishill houses covers half an acre of ground if f old nir air mr caxton C who pi had ha d ilas storus s of tile the war so lo long iong igi could follow tile the ex maor mayor of new york ID ill one oli oil of I 1 is rounds in franklin frankiin Sil sti square he lie would be to loedy eay hay tile the beust a little liitle surprised ile fie would see in one room the be floor loaded with will a weight of tong long of presses tile tiie ing process u would ouid puzzle him bim tile the d dry ing and pr pr ees ves would him hlin ile lie ile bustle bustie would nake his bis bend hend iche che and tle tie block room would hlin film cenite all ali edition of 0 herpers monthly magiline Magi zine consist of few pe hore bare any idea how birge a umber limber this is is applied to un ull edition of a b ok II 11 is edn con tl 0 at ut if t hse magazines mere were to rah dowid dom dow n ui uld add and d one inin man should t I 1 attempt to pick if tin in up like ca c ipp it auld W uld lake take I 1 1 him hini a fortnight to pick up iii the tin copis coph s of one oile gingle bingle 1 nu u do ciber cibir ab ar supposing min bun to pick up tip one every s seconds e c n and arid to worl work ten tell hours it n day I 1 he lie rapidity with wilb books bocks are aie now mail maii manufactured is ii almost A complete royy coty of one of bula rss ra noris novis nor noris ls published ucros tile tiie water in ahr tierre vl klomes umes omes and reproduced here bere herein in one was wept swept through tiie llie fir pris ss in in new york ill in 50 hours nud and offered for adle s le sin Ein st cLing liot hot iu fit tile tiie streets the fabulous edifice proposed by a yankee from vermont no longer seems impossibility build the establishment t according to 0 o avlan mv ian lan sid alid ile he drive a sheep in fit at one end mid nd he lie shail filial immediate immediately lv come lle ile lie tile oilier other four quarters of a lamb a fel hat fiat a leather ieather le ather apron and a quarto I 1 bible the lire life oran of an extensive publisher is of or necessity cesily ne one of or great labor both boll of wild wind mid and body he lie begins with author and andr oila i with willi tile the purchaser chaser betwee 1 these chece two wo worthies rabies there purchaser Eur hes her es a world of dattil kams only lo 10 the tile trad success to the tilo useful craft boston transcript 1 |
