This section looks at the technical aspects of printing and bookbinding. See the Newspaper & Publishing Industries section for articles on publishing books, newspapers and magazines.

Lithography and Other Novelties in Printing (Art Journal, 1853)

A Process of Hardening Engraved Copper Plates (Art Journal, 1858)

The Origin and Progress of Printing (Gentleman's Magazine, 1859)

Visits to Art Manufacturies: Chromo-Lithography (The Establishments of Messrs. Rowney & Co., and M. & N. Hanhart) (Art Journal, 1859)

Visits to Art Manufacturies: Ornamental Stationery, Playing Cards, and Vegetable Parchment (The Establishment of Messrs. de la Rue) (Art Journal, 1859)

The First Century of the Republic #5: Mechanical Progress 4, by Edward Knight (Harper's Monthly, 1875A)

Printing (with a lengthy history of printing through the ages); type; type-founding; type-setting and distribution; stereotyping; electrotyping; the printing press; folding machines; addressing machines; printing for the blind; engraving; lithography; photography; photolithography; photo processes; photo-micrography. Read the Entire Series.

How the Christmas Cards Are Made (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)

One gains a new appreciation of the beauty of a Victorian greeting card when one realizes that every color depicted thereon was hand-carved into a piece of stone!

The Art of Making Pictures in Stone (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1884)

Great American Industries: A Printed Book, by R.R. Bowker (Harper's Monthly, 1887B)

Great American Industries: A Sheet of Paper, by R.R. Bowker (Harper's Monthly, 1887B)

The Printing of The Century, by Theodore L. De Vinne (Century Magazine, 1891A)

A fascinating look at the equipment and technologies used to produce a magazine (and its illustrations)--much of the equipment having been designed specifically for Century Magazine.

Changes in Fashionable Stationery, by Ada Chester Bond (Ladies' Home Journal, 1892)

New styles of invitations and other formal stationery.

W.H. Smith and Son, by W.M. Acworth (English Illustrated Magazine, 1892A)

"Though Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son are much more than newsagents, being indeed advertisement agents, advertisement contractors, printers and lithographers, booksellers, librarians, and bookbinders, not to mention minor branches, they are newsagents first and foremost."

The Bible: How It Is Printed and Circulated, by Harry How (The Strand, 1894B)

Commercial Bookbinding, by Brander Matthews (Century Magazine, 1894B)

Bookbindings of the Past, by Brander Matthews (Century Magazine, 1894B)

Bookbindings of the Present, by Brander Matthews (Century Magazine, 1894B)

How Our Colour Plates Are Produced (Girl's Own Paper, 1894)

Books in Paper Covers, by Brander Matthews (Century Magazine, 1895B)

The Century's Printer on the Century's Type (Century Magazine, 1896A)

The introduction of a new typeface by The Century, and a look at the evolution of typefaces and the tastes of modern readers.

A Visit to Vanity Fair, by J.D. Symon (Windsor Magazine, 1896A)

The Binding of a Book, by Frank Hird (Girl's Own Paper, 1897)

Christmas Cards: Their Origin and Manufacture, by Leily Bingen (Windsor, 1898A)