Treatise on printing and type-founding; by Hansard Thomas Curson 1813-1891 & Nichol William

Author:Hansard, Thomas Curson, 1813-1891 & Nichol, William
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Printing, Printing
Publisher: Edinburgh, A. and C. Black
Published: 1841-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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EDINBURGH.—1805.

1. That all works considered as common be cast up at 4^d. per 1000, including heads and directions.

2. That Session-work and Jobs be paid at the rate ot 5^d. per 1000.

3. That all Dictionaries done in the manner of a Lexicon be paid at 5d. per 1000; but not to extend to Dictionaries of Science, or such as, from their nature, can be considered only as common matter.

4. That Pamphlets of five sheets and under be paid one shilling per sheet above what they come to by letters, for furniture and extra trouble.

5. That all works heretofore paid double (Greek and Scheme), take a proportionate advance according to the first proposition.

6. That all works printed in a foreign language, though common type, be paid at 5(J. per 1000.

7. That all works done on Nonpareil be paid at 5d. per 1000 ; and on Pearl, at 5Jd. per 1000.

8. That Grammars and School-books, where Roman and Italic words occur alternately, with braces, different justifications, &c. be paid at 5^d. per 1000.

9. That newspapers be considered as liable to a proportionate advance, according to the first proposition.

Corrections are paid in Edinburgh at 6d. per hour.

DUBLIN.

1. All works in the English language, common matter (inchiding Brevier and English), to be cast up at 5d. per 1000; if in Minion, 5^d.; Nonpareil, 6^d.; and Pearl, 7^.; head and direction or signature lines included. A thick space to be considered an n in the width, an n to be reckoned an m in the length of the page; and where the number of letters amount to 500, 1000 to be charged; if under 500, not to be reckoned; and if the calculation at per 1000 shall not amount to an odd 6d., the odd pence to be suppressed in the price of the work; but where it amounts to or exceeds 6d., there shall be Is. charged: m and n quadrats, or whatever is used at the beginning and end of the lines, to be reckoned an m in the width.

2. All works done in Great Primer, or larger type, to be cast up as English.

3. Works that do not come to the under-named prices per sheet, when cast up according to Article 1 (such as small-sized folios, quartos, octavos, or under, &c.), to be paid as follows: English, and larger type, 7s.; Pica, 8s. 6d. [octavos and under, in Pica, Os.J ; Small Pica, 1 Is.; Long Primer, 14s.; Bourgeois, 17s.; and Brevier 20s., per sheet.

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