In Second Printing Revolution, Jeremy Norman traces the transition in book production technology from handicrafts to mass media with some of the earliest examples of publications employing each new process. From the mechanization of papermaking, printing, and illustration to typesetting and bookbinding, the book examines a quantum leap in the dissemination of knowledge comparable to the time of Gutenberg.
304 pages | 350 | 9.5 x 11.25 | © 2026
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Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Book and Newspaper Production in the First Century of the Industrial Revolution
2. Louis-Nicholas Robert and the Development of the Papermaking Machine
3. Friedrich Koenig Invents the Steam-Powered Printing Machine
4. Railroads, Power Looms and Bibles: Innovation versus Tradition
5. Henry Brougham, Charles Knight and the Society for the DiOusion of Useful Knowledge Use Printing Machines to Reach Large Audiences
6. Image Reproduction Methods Appropriate for Rotary Printing Machines: Wood Engraving, Steel Engraving, Electrotyping, Lithography
7. Developments in Mechanized Book and Newspaper Production, 1800–1850
8. Charles Dickens and his Imitators Exploit the New Technologies with Great Success
9. Development of Mechanized Printing in America: Daniel Treadwell, The American Bible Society, Isaac Adams, the Harper Brothers
10. The Role of Women in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Book Production: Emily Faithfull
11. Mechanizing Typesetting and Type Distribution from William Church to Young and Delcambre’s Pianotyp to Linotype and Monotype
12. William Pickering and Archibald Leighton Begin the Mechanization of Bookbinding
13. Mechanization of Book Production in the United States and Europe, 1851 – 1904:
The Great Exhibition, George Baxter, Manuals & Promotional Books on Mechanized Printing, The Caxton Celebration & Bible.
14. Mechanization of Newspaper Production in the United States and Europe, 1826-1900: The Hoe Family & Hippolyte Marinoni
15. William Morris, Theodore Low De Vinne, and Robert Hoe III Reflect upon nineteenth Century Developments in Book Production