Exhibition & Market of Machinery Used by Printers and Kindred Trades. Official Catalogue of Exhibits Ed. by L. Wolf (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... are certainly not stationery, nor indeed have they anything whatever to do with stationery. To wit--medicines, portmanteaux, leather bags, jewellery, and a host of other similar goods are not stationery proper in the strict sense of the trade, so far as the writer's opinion goes. It would be well here to observe that any statements in the form of opinions are only personal, and merely those of one individual, who would be sorry to dictate or behave in any way egotistically to the trade either generally or personally. That stationery is, as it were, an inanimate world governed by paper, the author feels will be generally acknowledged. It seems quite impossible to keep paper out of our minds when stationery is under consideration. But there are undoubtedly other forms of stationery which go beyond paper and all apparatus used in its consumption by human beings themselves. "We all know that to be able to use writing-paper and envelopes we must have pencils or pens and ink, receptacles for all these utensils, perhaps sealing-wax, wafers, or gum; maybe we require a ruler, and some of us cannot do without a blottingpad, pen-wiper, pen-rack, copying-book and press. There, at once, is a leap from paper pure and simple But a sub-division might be made of our subject, which the author, in all modesty, thinks might be accepted. The first might be called " manugraphic stationery," and would appertain entirely and solely to the popular view of stationery, viz., writing materials inclusive. The second let us call " typographic stationery," which would embrace the union of printing and paper in all its various forms and modifications. This sub-division would have an exclusive character in one way, it would only embrace the union of the two great...