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A Brief History of Printing. Part II: The Economic History of Printing

Chapter 20: ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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The volume surveys the economic and social history of the printing industry from the fifteenth century to the French Revolution, examining how government regulation, privileges, and censorship shaped production and distribution. It traces the emergence of monopoly rights and early copyright ideas, the uneasy relation between printers and medieval guild systems, and the shift to machine-based, divided labor. Chapters reconstruct workshop organization, apprenticeship, employer–employee relations, and the everyday routines and struggles of printers, drawing heavily on French sources while offering comparative sketches of European practice.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This series of Typographic Text-books is the result of the splendid co-operation of a large number of firms and individuals engaged in the printing business and its allied industries in the United States of America.

The Committee on Education of the United Typothetae of America, under whose auspices the books have been prepared and published, acknowledges its indebtedness for the generous assistance rendered by the many authors, printers, and others identified with this work.

While due acknowledgment is made on the title and copyright pages of those contributing to each book, the Committee nevertheless felt that a group list of co-operating firms would be of interest.

The following list is not complete, as it includes only those who have co-operated in the production of a portion of the volumes, constituting the first printing. As soon as the entire list of books comprising the Typographic Technical Series has been completed (which the Committee hopes will be at an early date), the full list will be printed in each volume.

The Committee also desires to acknowledge its indebtedness to the many subscribers to this Series who have patiently awaited its publication.

Committee on Education,
United Typothetae of America.
Henry P. Porter, Chairman,
E. Lawrence Fell,
A. M. Glossbrenner,
J. Clyde Oswald,
Toby Rubovits.
Frederick W. Hamilton, Education Director.