WAPPING

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Galley proofs of article 'lifted from the New York Times', giving 'a factual account of events that led up to the implementation of a policy that will effectively abolish the traditional methods of printing newspapers'.

Author:

[New York Times; press unions; newspaper printing; electronic typesetting; automation]

Publication details:

[Circa 1974. From an unknown source. (For circulation among members of the English SOGAT and NGA print unions?]

£95.00

Six pages in double column and one page in single column, on seven leaves roughly 63 x 15.5 cm. Not entirely uniform: dimensions of type of first leaf approximately 50 x 10 cm; and of last (single-column) page roughly 56 x 5 cm. Clear and complete. On aged and folded high-aciditiy paper. Stapled, but with last leaf creased and detached from rest. The article is headed: 'This is a factual account of events that led up to the implementation of a policy that will effectively abolish the traditional methods of printing newspapers, with particular emphasis on the composing area.

Keywords:

Act of Parliament 'for making and maintaining a Tunnel under the River Thames, from some Place in the Parish of Saint John of Wapping [...] to the opposite Shore of the said River in the Parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe [...]'.

Author:

Thames Tunnel, Act of Parliament, 24 June 1824 [Marc Isambard Brunel; Isambard Kingdom Brunel; Rotherhithe to Wapping]

Publication details:

LONDON: Printed by GEORGE EYRE and Andrew STRAHAN, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1824.'

£85.00

8vo, 60 pp (paginated 3873-3932). Disbound. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Royal crest at head of first page, beneath which: 'Anno Quinto Georgii IV. Regis. | Cap. clvi. | An Act for making and maintaining a Tunnel under the River Thames, from some Place in the Parish of Saint John of Wapping in the County of Middlesex to the opposite Shore of the said River in the Parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the County of Surrey, with sufficient Approaches thereto. | [24th June 1824.]'.

Keywords:

WAPPING

Galley proofs of article 'lifted from the New York Times', giving 'a factual account of events that led up to the implementation of a policy that will effectively abolish the traditional methods of printing newspapers'.

Act of Parliament 'for making and maintaining a Tunnel under the River Thames, from some Place in the Parish of Saint John of Wapping [...] to the opposite Shore of the said River in the Parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe [...]'.

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